# Engineering Manager, Device Platforms

About Niantic Spatial AI has learned from almost everything online, but it still struggles with the physical world, where 99.5% of economic activity happens. It doesn’t know where things are, how spaces fit together, or what changes over time. That’s one of the biggest unsolved problems in AI, and it’s the one we’re solving at Niantic Spatial. We build spatial AI models and services so people and machines can reason, learn and act safely in the physical world. We turn camera imagery, video, sensor data and archives into accurate, AI-readable representations of real places that robots can train in and machines can use to know exactly where they are. In physical AI, mistakes have real consequences. That’s why we build AI grounded in measured reality, not guesswork, so the people and machines relying on it can trust it to get things right. Our team built some of the world’s most widely used maps. Now we’re building something bigger: a living, measured record of the real world that machines can query, learn from and use to understand how places change over time. If you want to help AI understand the world we actually live in, come build with us. About the Role We are seeking a hands-on

- **Id**: 3898099
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/niantic-spatial-engineering-manager-device-platforms>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T21:17:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T04:19:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8045
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space & Aerospace, Earth Observation, Industrial IoT (IIoT), Foundation Models

## Company

- **Id**: 171874
- **Name**: Niantic Spatial
- **Domain**: nianticspatial.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/niantic-spatial>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 238500
- **Max**: 310000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 310000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Swift** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: yes
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: yes
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T23:43:57Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 9; Filings 12m: 9

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 60
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 310000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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