Senior Software Engineer, Spectacles

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves live in the moment learn about the world and have fun together. The Companys three core products are Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world; Lens Studio an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses Spectacles.

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Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Spectacles team!

What youll do:

• Design build and support software systems tools and workflows that enable computer vision development for Spectacles

• Develop production-quality C and supporting infrastructure for CV-related pipelines tooling and internal developer workflows

• Improve the reliability quality and efficiency of CV development validation and calibration workflows with a focus on eye-tracking calibration

• Build tools and workflows to evaluate calibration quality diagnose failures and improve robustness across devices users and environments

• Build high quality maintainable and performant code with strong testing and operational standards

• Participate in code and design reviews

• Work closely with computer vision platform product and infrastructure teams to turn research and prototypes into robust engineering solutions

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Strong software engineering skills in C or solid experience in a systems language with the ability to ramp quickly on C

• Experience building high quality performant and maintainable software with strong unit and functional testing practices

• Experience supporting geometric computer vision eye tracking calibration perception imaging sensors or other technically adjacent workflows

• Experience building tools libraries pipelines or infrastructure for calibration validation debugging and performance analysis

• Familiarity with numerical methods optimisation and measurement quality metrics for real-world CV systems

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with high attention to detail

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science related degree or equivalent practical experience

• 2 years of post-Bachelors software development experience; or Masters degree in a technical field 1 year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field

• Industry software development experience building production systems tools or infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience building and shipping high performance software

• Experience with eye-tracking systems gaze estimation or calibration workflows

• Experience with geometric computer vision camera or sensor calibration or related production CV systems

• Experience working close to hardware sensors operating systems or resource-constrained devices

• Practice designing reusable APIs tooling platforms or developer workflows

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