Teams at Niantic Spatial, Inc.

Leads the Device SDK and Mobile Engineering teams, owning technical strategy, architecture, native SDKs, spatial computing runtimes, and iOS and Android applications. This hands-on leader manages engineers, contributes production code, reviews architecture and code, guides AI-native development practices, and drives performance, portability, scalability, quality, and delivery. The role partners with research, platform, and product leadership across mobile, XR, robotics, and edge-computing initiatives while recruiting and developing engineering talent.

Own the roadmap, evaluation standards, data strategy, release decisions, and long-term direction for Niantic Spatial’s Large Geospatial Model. Translate customer needs into research requirements, define model acceptance criteria using real-world ground truth, oversee data acquisition and governance, and turn new model capabilities into commercial products. Partner with research, engineering, legal, business development, and customer-facing teams across industrial, defense, robotics, and platform markets.

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, edge services, and GPU compute capacity. Improve reliability through monitoring, alerting, SLOs, incident response, and automation. Manage containers, authentication systems, source control, and build infrastructure while participating in on-call operations and applying AI-assisted tools to infrastructure engineering.