Robotics

• Lead engineering for Niantic Spatial's real-to-sim product within the Embodied AI group
• Inform the product roadmap using firsthand knowledge of customer pain, existing solutions, and customer value
• Own technical requirements and guide pragmatic design of the real-to-sim stack
• Make final recommendations on what to build, integrate, and simplify
• Ensure capabilities work within customers' existing training and evaluation workflows
• Design and run reproducible evaluations with the Real-World Test Lab
• Measure the impact of the real-to-sim stack on policy transfer and real-world performance against customers' existing approaches
• Lead engineering delivery and personally build critical features
• Keep scope tight, remove blockers, and deliver performant capabilities to customers quickly
• Set a high technical bar and deepen the team's understanding of robotics development and deployment
• Collaborate with the group's General Manager, Product leader, researchers, engineers, and customers

Staff Engineer – Robot Learning, Embodied AI

• Manage the fleet of capture devices, sensors, and robots, including inventory, calibration, firmware, maintenance, logistics, and spares
• Characterize platform capabilities and limitations
• Design, build, and operate physical test environments with controlled layouts, lighting, markers, obstacles, and ground-truth references
• Create rigs, mounts, references, and measurement setups for trajectory ground truth, positional accuracy, timing, synchronization, and condition logging
• Integrate physical-run results into the automated evaluation system through data offload, run metadata, and structured condition capture
• Execute robot runs and device-in-the-loop tests, including robot bring-up, teleoperation, scripted trials, and repeatable test sessions
• Engineer and execute physical counterparts to simulated scenarios for valid sim-to-real comparisons
• Define and maintain safe operating procedures for robots and powered equipment
• Coordinate access and safety requirements with workplace services, IT, Legal, and site owners
• Automate configuration, calibration checks, data offload, and condition logging
• Report to the Director of the Real-World Test Lab

Hardware Operations Engineer – Robotics, Real-World Test Lab

• Drive outcomes across perception, mapping, sensor fusion, and calibration
• Improve product quality and consistency across an increasing breadth of operating conditions
• Lead SLAM development, incorporating new sensor evolutions and improving performance in GPS-degraded environments
• Fuse multi-user, multi-session point-cloud maps
• Automate alignment of LiDAR and imagery data to produce consistent large-scale scenes
• Eliminate the need for extrinsic measurements on vehicle sensors in the field
• Improve the ability to detect and correct potential data-quality issues at their source
• Collaborate with the robotics and enterprise software team

Senior Robotics Engineer, Perception

• Develop a structured sector or forward-looking technology thesis
• Map markets, academic researchers, commercial trends, and ecosystem players
• Source companies and investment opportunities
• Perform rigorous technical diligence on venture opportunities
• Write concise, publication-ready investment memos
• Defend investment viewpoints in deal discussions
• Participate in kickoff training, office hours, and peer reviews with the cohort
• Work with the MD for AI and Robotics and an experienced investment team member
• Attend recurring meetings and receive substantive feedback from a dedicated primary manager

Robotics jobs in California

Staff Engineer – Robot Learning, Embodied AI

Hardware Operations Engineer – Robotics, Real-World Test Lab

Senior Robotics Engineer, Perception

Technical Fellow – AI and Robotics