layiq

/la·yiq/adjective

worthy; deserving; fitting; suitable.

A role, opportunity, or path that merits attention, time, and pursuit.

LAYIQ - Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Embodied AI at Niantic Spatial

6+ years of software engineering experience; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Significant experience building and operating production web applications and backend services, with strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, testing, observability, and reliability.
Shipped developer-facing products — including the documentation and reference code external engineers actually used — and worked with 3D asset formats or comparable binary formats to production depth: you can say what the conventions were, where they broke, and what it cost you.
Proficient in Python and TypeScript, comfortable working across frontend and backend, and able to take a feature from product requirements through to running it in production.
Experience designing asynchronous workflows, long-running jobs, external integrations, and data-intensive systems.
Nice to Have
Experience working with robotics simulators or toolchains such as Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, or MuJoCo, or OpenUSD.
Built products for geospatial, 3D, computer vision, graphics, robotics, or spatial computing.
Worked on visualization or asset-management experiences with React, Next.js, or Three.js.
Competencies
Relentless bias for action.
You make decisions and ship as if the company’s success depends on it, because it does. You set the pace, and drive the people around you to rise to it.
Intellectually honest.
You know there’s just one job that underpins every other in a startup: find the truth. You are relentless in your pursuit of it, including when it challenges your own convictions, and you raise concerns when you see them — even when it's uncomfortable, and especially when it's unpopular.
Pragmatic.
You have no patience for not-invented-here syndrome and analysis paralysis. You find the fastest path to a working capability without one-way doors that undermine scaling.
Confident and credible with customers.
You can read an autonomy engineer's training config, find why our asset didn't load, and explain the fix in their terms.
Fluent in other people's ecosystems.
You'll spend much of your time learning new tools and stacks. You're quick to learn the customer's language, and you can point to something you shipped in a world that was foreign to you a quarter earlier.

Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Embodied AI

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