2025 Software Engineering Intern, Niantic
Graphics and Computer Vision
The pay range for this internship is GBP 6500 to GBP 7500 per month
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2 days a week in office
Augmented reality software development
Job no longer available
Augmented reality software development
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
The pay range for this internship is GBP 6500 to GBP 7500 per month
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Niantic's mission is to shape a future where technology enables novel robotics, computing, and entertainment experiences, focusing predominantly on augmented reality games.
Role
Who you are
- Recently finished or enrolled as a Master’s or PhD student in Computer Science or related field
- You have built your own software systems in Javascript/Typescript, Python or C++, wrangling 2D and/or 3D data
- You are highly curious and don’t shy away from picking up new technologies and learning about new technologies
- Proven understanding of computer science fundamentals with excellent coding, problem solving, and debugging skills
Desirable
- You have experience in computer graphics for the web (WebGL,Three.js)
- You have experience writing software for VR/AR HMDs
- Previous internship experience
- You have made data structures or other design choices to optimize pipeline speed
- You have had 1+ papers accepted to CVPR / ICCV / NeurIPS / IROS / ISMAR / SIGGRAPH / CHI type conferences
- You have experience designing your own architectures within a deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, or similar)
- You have used cloud computing platforms such as GCP or AWS before
What the job involves
- Niantic's Augmented Reality (AR) Mapping Team is seeking interns to work on advancing our real-world AR games and platform. Join us for a 3 or 4 month internship and grow your skills quickly while being mentored by an experienced team of engineers and researchers
- Our technical challenges include data consistency across distributed systems, creating compelling gameplay for a global user base working with geo data at scale, and innovating in augmented reality. Niantic Engineering leads the advancement of spatial computing and immersive technologies while creating engaging apps for a user base in the billions. Come empower players on a game board consisting of the entire world!
- The projects you will work on fit under the broad umbrella of augmented reality, including rendering, machine learning, mapping & relocalization, tracking, and 3D reconstruction. We invite you to explore the best AR problems with us!
- Dig into a fun engineering challenge related to rendering and computer vision
- Build data pipelines and tools using point clouds, meshes and/or gaussian splats
- Participate in the design, development and implementation of software solutions
- Work alongside our engineers and researchers to build and solve problems collaboratively
- Adhere to software engineering best practices and contribute to code reviews
- Build efficient data processing pipelines and tools for visual data
- Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Thursday
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Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$245m
SERIES C
Total funding: $774.3m
Our take
Niantic, Inc. is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.
Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.
Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle