<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,45,47);line-height:30px;font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Niantic's Research and Development team is seeking post-MSc or PhD-students, who are passionate about inventing new algorithms, to join us for a 3-month research internship to work on computer vision and learning, alongside our growing team of researchers in central London. The projects you will work on fit under the broad umbrella of artificial intelligence for augmented reality, including deep or shallow machine learning models, tracking, 3D reconstruction, localization, and graphics for mixed reality. We invite you to explore the best problems in vision with us.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,45,47);line-height:30px;font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#2b2d2f" face="Akkurat, Gill Sans, Gill Sans MT, Myriad Pro, DejaVu Sans Condensed, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,45,47);line-height:30px;font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#2b2d2f" face="Akkurat, Gill Sans, Gill Sans MT, Myriad Pro, DejaVu Sans Condensed, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:18px">Apply here: </span></font><a href="https://nianticlabs.com/jobs/software-engineer-research-intern/">https://nianticlabs.com/jobs/software-engineer-research-intern/</a><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px"><font color="#2b2d2f" face="Akkurat, Gill Sans, Gill Sans MT, Myriad Pro, DejaVu Sans Condensed, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">Applications received by 1st February 2019 will receive priority </span></font><span style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,45,47);font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">consideration.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px"><span style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,45,47);font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:24px;line-height:46px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(43,45,47);margin-top:20px;font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Responsibilities</span></h3><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(43,45,47);font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">You will dig deep into a fun computer vision and machine learning topic, becoming the expert and breaking new ground.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">You will discover ways to automatically understand imagery and/or telemetry from the real world, to track, reconstruct, localize, synthesize, or recognize more accurately or more efficiently.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">You will work alongside our other researchers, accepting help and aiding others, to make discoveries that will eventually help the Niantic Real World Platform, as it gets deployed for Niantic and outside developers alike.</li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:24px;line-height:46px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(43,45,47);margin-top:20px;font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Qualifications</span></h3><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(43,45,47);font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">Completed the requirements for an MSc and/or are enrolled in a PhD program, in computer science or a related field, with focus on computer vision, robotics, AR, or machine learning.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">Experience building your own software systems in Python or C++, wrangling 2D and/or 3D data, training models, and running experiments.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">Proficient at finding, reading, and efficiently critiquing and experimentally assessing published research papers.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">Experience writing technical papers in English for a scientific audience.</li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:24px;line-height:46px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(43,45,47);margin-top:20px;font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Plus If…</span></h3><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(43,45,47);font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">You have had 1+ papers accepted to ICCV / NeurIPS / IROS / ISMAR / SIGGRAPH type conferences.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">You have experience building fast or efficient computer vision systems.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">You have experience designing your own architectures within a deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, or similar).</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:30px;margin-bottom:10px">You have collected and curated your own raw data.</li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:24px;line-height:46px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(43,45,47);margin-top:20px;font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit">Join the Niantic team!</strong></h3><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(43,45,47);font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">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.<br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit">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, and record-breaking AR game Pokémon GO. Our third title, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, is currently in development.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(43,45,47);font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">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.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(43,45,47);font-family:Akkurat,"Gill Sans","Gill Sans MT","Myriad Pro","DejaVu Sans Condensed",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">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, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Hamburg.</p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Gabriel Brostow</div><div>Professor of Machine Vision, UCL</div><div>Chief Research Scientist, Niantic </div><div><a href="http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Brostow">http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Brostow</a></div></div></div></div></div>