JOBS

We’re creating a computer vision platform to power the next generation of augmented reality. This is an incredibly complex endeavor that will require everything from sophisticated computer vision algorithms running on mobile devices, to vast storage of visual information, to taking advantage of GPU servers for fast parallel image processing. An important part of this platform will be the web backend system required to tie it all together.

Our currently launched product, 360 Panorama, has millions of users and huge potential that we have yet to tap. 360 Panorama users are helping us build the 360VERSE - a way to explore the world through 360 views, searchable by location AND time (currently in beta, launching soon).

We’re looking for a web wizard who is excited to help us expand on 360 Panorama and 360VERSE and also help us build the computer vision platform that will usher in a new wave of augmented reality.

If you have experience with most of the following, we’d love to talk to you:

• Python or other server side scripting language experience (most of our backend is written in Python)
• MVC frameworks (we use Django)
• Node.js (used on our GPU servers)
• Postgres or other SQL experience
• Geospatial / location search using PostGIS
• *nix server administration and automation
• Usage of cloud services, including storage and server provisioning
• Working knowledge of front-end technologies (e.g. Javascript, HTML5, WebGL)
• Knowledge and ability to debug the full web stack.
• Understanding of networking protocols and ability to implement and design new ones.

But now we've set our sights even higher. Your smartphone's computational reach into its surroundings ends at its touchscreen surface. To your device, the real world isn't a canvas of interactivity. Instead, it's little more than a grid of pixels that might as well be random. We're changing that. We're using computer vision to make real world environments computationally interactive and fun, thereby extending the computational reach of your device into the visual space around you.

If you believe in our mission, and have experience and passion in most of the following topics, we would love to talk to you:

• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and SfM
• Augmented Reality
• GPGPU (OpenCL or CUDA)
• Native mobile development (iOS, Android)
• C/C++ optimization including vector (SIMD) instructions

We've been pushing the boundaries of what's possible with iOS since late 2008 with mobile computer vision apps like RedLaser (acquired by eBay in 2010) and 360 Panorama. We're not just an "app company." We strive to change the world through our products and their underlying state-of-the-art computer vision technology, all of which is built from scratch by our broadly-talented team.

We need someone who knows exactly what the Apple iOS SDK is doing under the covers and can help us build innovative computer vision applications the right way.

Do most of the following apply to you?

• Real artists ship - You have a strong desire to help build something that is the best in the world and ship it.
• Details matter - You believe everything should have a reason, down to the placement of a button and the text of an error message.
• You write bulletproof, well-commented and reusable code.
• Thorough knowledge of memory management on iOS is ingrained in you. You can optimize the memory footprint of an app, avoid memory leaks like the plague, and you know what NSZombieEnabled is.
• You can recite the exact setup / teardown process that UIKit follows for UIViewController and UIViews in your sleep.
• You've worked with AV Foundation, know what YCbCr is, and perhaps you've even written a camera-based application.
• You've built a game or other graphics-based app using Open GL ES 2.0 and think pixel shaders are the best thing since sliced bread.
• You've built an app that is live on the App Store that we can try.

At Occipital, we love creating amazing user-experiences on the web that work for all common browsers, but we also love pushing the envelope with the latest tech. With 360 Panorama, for example, we created an interactive viewer that works across almost every browser, but we also added gyro support for the mobile safari browser.

But we’ve just started scratching the surface of what’s possible with the font-end web, and we will do a lot more. The experiences we create around our computer vision powered products are brand new and require next-gen interfaces - we want someone who can help us bring these experiences to the web.

Do most of the following apply to you?

• Real artists ship - You have a strong desire to help build something that is the best in the world and ship it.
• Details matter - You believe everything should have a reason, down to the placement of a button and the size of a text field, even if that reason is that it looks better.
• User experience above all else - You’ll deal with things like browser compatibility issues in an elegant way to make sure users on all popular browsers have a great experience.
• You have an active Github account and can show us some code you are proud of.
• You can tap into a user’s sensorimotor cortex to create Natural User Interfaces.
• You write bulletproof, well-commented and reusable Javascript and know when to use libraries like jQuery and when to just write something custom for performance.
• You’ve built something with WebGL and have tons of ideas on how to take advantage of it.
• You want to push the asynchronous envelope with Node.js
• You have experience with Python/Django.
• You’ve built something using maps or geo data.
• You believe 3D is a big part of the future, and you like to subtly integrate it into normal 2D web experiences, but then go all out when you’ve got HTML5 and WebGL.
• You have experience building something non-trivial using Flash.
• You want to join the team that’s building the future of Augmented Reality.