2025 R&D Software Engineering Intern (PhD, Publishing) - Remote

Overview

Niantic's Research and Development team is seeking PhD students who are passionate about inventing new algorithms and experiences. Join us for a 3 or 4 month research internship to work on computer vision, learning, and/or HCI, alongside our team of researchers and engineers in London (UK). The aim is to innovate and/or publish the work we do together, pushing the field forward. The projects you will work on fit under the broad umbrella of augmented reality, including deep or shallow machine learning models, tracking, 3D reconstruction, human-computer interaction, and graphics for mixed reality. We invite you to explore the best AR problems with us!

In Short

• Dig deep into a fun computer vision / machine learning / HCI topic, becoming the expert and breaking new ground.
• Discover ways to automatically understand imagery and/or telemetry from the real world, to track, reconstruct, synthesize, or recognize more accurately or more efficiently.
• Work alongside our other researchers, accepting help and aiding others, to make discoveries that will eventually help the Niantic Platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members, including regular attendance and participation in meetings and working groups.
• Required in-office 2 days on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Requirements

• You are enrolled in a PhD program in computer science or a related field, with a focus on computer vision, robotics, AR, HCI, or machine learning.
• You have experience building your own software systems in Python or C++, wrangling 2D and/or 3D data, training models, and running experiments.
• You are proficient at finding, reading, and efficiently critiquing and experimentally assessing published research papers.
• You have experience writing technical papers in English for a scientific audience.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AR technology.
• Collaboration with a team of experts in the field.
• Hybrid work environment.