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Software Engineer, Internship (AR)
4 years ago
Niantic’s AR Engineering Team is seeking interns to work on advancing our real-world augmented reality games and our high performance AR platform service. You’ll grow your skills quickly while being mentored by an experienced team of server, gaming, mobile, and full-stack engineers. Come empower players on a game board consisting of the entire world! Niantic Engineering leads the advancement of augmented reality and other immersive technologies while creating engaging apps for a user base in the billions. This role is eligible for sponsorship under CPT Visa.
Responsibilities
- Designing and implementing high-quality C++ code with actor models that have few bugs and is easy for other engineers to understand.
- Solving technical challenges and building features that will result in core features for our AR Platform.
- Collaborate with engineers and computer vision engineers to build services to power advance AR features.
Qualifications
- Graduating in 2021 or later, with a Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Previous internship experience as a software engineer.
- Excellent coding, problem solving, and debugging skills, in C++.
- Experience with systems engineering and/or multi-threaded/concurrent programming.
- Proven understanding of computer science fundamentals.
- Knowledge of software engineering processes and tools (e.g., programming proficiency in an object-oriented language, algorithms and data structures).
Plus If…
- You love Augmented Reality.
- You helped to build scalable systems, games, or web experiences in your previous internships.
Join the Niantic team!
Niantic is the world’s leading AR technology company, sparking creative and engaging journeys in the real world. Our products inspire outdoor exploration, exercise, and meaningful social interaction.
Originally formed at Google in 2011, we became an independent company in 2015 with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. Our current titles include pioneering global-control game Ingress, record-breaking AR game Pokémon GO, and recently released third title, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
Niantic is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.
We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, and Zurich.
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