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At Niantic Spatial, we’re building the future of geospatial AI. Powered by a proprietary database of over 30 billion posed images and a groundbreaking third-generation digital map, our mission is to develop spatial intelligence that helps both humans and machines better understand, navigate, and engage with the physical world. Our high-fidelity mapping technology unlocks a new dimension of interaction—laying the foundation for AI to truly comprehend and operate within real-world environments. Join us as we build a living model of the world that people and machines can talk to.

As a Senior Mobile Native Engineer (Kotlin), you will lead the design and implementation of the Niantic Spatial native SDK in Kotlin. The NSDK enables our partners and clients to integrate Niantic Spatial’s geospatial AI platform into their applications and experiences. Its capabilities include all of the major pillars of Niantic Spatial’s capabilities: localization, understanding and reconstruction. You will be responsible for delivering these features to Android devices and building applications to showcase their usage.

Responsibilities

• Own the Mobile Architecture: Design the mobile SDK to be robust, high performance, and intuitive to use for internal and external client developers.

• Productionizing the cutting edge: Prototype and validate the latest state of the art developments from Niantic Spatial’s research teams, then productionize these features by working with product teams and iterating them into the SDK.

• Samples and experiments: Implement first-party examples and demos that showcase the capabilities of the SDK and serve as reference implementations for common use cases.

• Go-to Kotlin Expert: Provide design feedback, code review and advocate for best practices and modern design patterns for Kotlin and Android products at Niantic Spatial.

• Collaborate with partners: Work closely with research, the c++ SDK team from the upstream, as well as internal client developers and external customers downstream to build a successful SDK.

Requirements

• Education: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent years of professional experience).

• Years of Experience: Minimum 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Technical Core: Expert-level proficiency in native Android mobile development (Java / Kotlin). Built and shipped native Android applications or SDKs.

• Adaptability: Proven ability to solve open-ended problems and navigate the ambiguity of a fast-paced startup.

• Familiarity with 3D rendering concepts, AR / VR frameworks or game engines.

• Required In-Office Days: 3 days per week.

Plus If:

• Production Experience with native C++ integration, Swift / iOS native development, or the Unity game engine.

• Prior work developing SDKs or APIs used by external developer communities.

• Knowledge of Mapping or Geo-AR technologies

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Compensation Range: $196.7K - $230K