Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

At Occipital, we believe that spatial is the next frontier in computing. We are looking for passionate, talented computer vision engineers and researchers to help bring cutting edge spatial computing to everyday life. Our first step was to enable everyone to capture the world in 3D, so we created Structure Sensor, a depth sensor for iPad, the first of its kind and one of the top-funded Kickstarter projects.

Well-designed hardware is only the beginning of what we do at Occipital. We're fundamentally a software company developing state-of-the-art computer vision software. We've laid the groundwork for spatial computing in everyday life by launching apps and a powerful engine for real-time object scanning, indoor mapping and augmented reality.

But we're just getting started, and as we extend our platform to solve new problems and push new boundaries, we are looking to extend our team. If you have experience and passion in all or most of the following topics, we would love to talk to you:

• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
• Machine Learning for Vision (Decision Trees, Neural Networks)
• Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
• Sensor Fusion
• Multi-View Stereo
• GPGPU (OpenCL/Metal/CUDA)
• Native mobile development (iOS, Android)
• C/C++ optimization including vector (SIMD) instructions

Machine Learning Engineer

At Occipital, we believe that spatial understanding is the next frontier in computing. Our first step was to enable everyone to capture the world in 3D, so we created Structure Sensor, a depth sensor for iPad, the first of its kind and one of the top-funded Kickstarter projects. Well-designed hardware is only the beginning of what we do at Occipital. We're fundamentally a software company developing state-of-the-art computer vision software.

We believe that combining Deep Learning with geometric 3D vision / SLAM will be key to building robust, next-gen solutions, and there is no better place to implement those solutions than Occipital. We have world-class expertise in classical 3D understanding, we have amassed large, extremely unique labeled datasets, developed a powerful engine for real-time geometric 3D vision, and we have built strong relations with top academic partners. Our goal now is to ramp up a first-rate Deep Learning team to harness this confluence of events and build revolutionary deep models for perceiving the world in 3D. Due to our small size your contributions will have a disproportionate impact on the company, our customers and our academic partners.

Responsibilities:

• Fast iteration of novel hybrid models combining deep perception with 3D vision / SLAM
• Development of real-time C++ implementations
• Fast prototyping of real-time proofs-of-concept

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education:
  • BS degree with at least 2 years experience with active research/development of Deep Learning models for computer vision applications, OR
  • MS or PhD in CS (or similar) with course or project experience in machine learning for computer vision
• Experience with Deep Learning frameworks such as Tensorflow and/or Pytorch
• Strong C/C++ fundamentals
• Self-motivated, Good Communicator, Team player

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD with emphasis on machine learning for computer vision
• Experience with 3D computer vision, such as:
  • SLAM
  • Dense or Sparse reconstruction
  • Mapping
  • Bundle Adjustment
  • Optical Flow
  • Calibration
  • Stereo matching
  • 3D sensing
• Experience with advanced Deep Learning methods, such as:
  • Extensive knowledge of different architectures
  • Extensive knowledge of the art of Deep Learning
  • Self-supervised methods
  • Transfer learning
  • Multiview methods
• Contribution to research communities and/or efforts, including publishing papers at conferences such as NIPS, ICML, CVPR, etc.

Accuracy and Test Engineer

At Occipital, we build cutting edge computer vision algorithms and systems quickly. To keep our team always moving forward, we maintain a suite of many levels of testing from unit to full-system regression tests, along with the automation required to poke and prod our systems from many angles.

We’re looking for a self-motivated engineer who can maintain and extend our tests, automation, and performance monitoring across the board. The ideal engineer also has a strong interest in computer vision and SLAM and isn’t afraid to dive right into new code to track down improvements or regressions.

We’d love to talk if you’ve got experience and interest in the following:

• C++
• Python
• General Scripting
• Familiarity with plotting tools
• Being Scientifically rigorous
• Plan experiments
• Carefully measure results
• Basic/intermediate familiarity with computer vision, SLAM, and 3D math
• Image processing
• 3D and Projective Geometry
• Optimization
• Data Analysis and Statistics

The future of computing is spatial. Following upon the revolutionary Structure Sensor mobile 3D sensor, Occipital has introduced Structure Core, an OEM 3D sensing module that adds high performance depth sensing to devices like AR/VR/MR headsets, tablets, drones and robots. Structure Core has already been embedded in augmented reality headsets, home robots and a wide range of other embedded applications with many more to come. Structure Core can be used standalone or combined with Occipital’s patented 6-DoF positional tracking software to make any device spatially aware.

Occipital is seeking a Sales Director to lead global sales efforts for Structure Core. We are looking for a candidate who is a technologist at heart and also loves closing deals. The ideal candidate will be as confident at showcasing all aspects of the technology, as getting design wins and booking revenue.

Building on a strong, pre-existing network of reseller and OEM partners, the Sales Director will be responsible for:

• Driving revenue by identifying, cultivating and closing major direct account opportunities
• Working closely with major accounts to identify the customer’s business and technical requirements within the context of Occipital’s product capability set
• Establishing channel and distribution partnerships in strategic vertical markets
• Fielding and qualifying inbound leads from potential OEM accounts to build pipeline while minimizing team disruption from pursuing unqualified accounts
• Diagnosing lost deals to drive team awareness of product/technology gaps, competitor strengths and market needs
• Work in close partnership with Occipital’s Vice President, Marketing to develop a detailed marketing strategy for Structure Core
• Collaborate with the Director, OEM Business Development and Director, Canvas Business Development to share leads and best practices.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 7-10 years of overall experience including 3-5 years in a sales role
• Experience with embedded hardware especially semiconductors, and/or optical and sensing hardware
• The ability to understand and articulate complex technical requirements in everyday language
• Proven ability to largely work independently with a highly technical product offering
• A process orientation to sales
• A proven ability to manage all aspects of the sales process from lead generation to closing and account management
• Prior experience as field application engineer or field sales engineer from the semiconductor or related industry is high desirable
• Experience doing business in Asia is highly desirable
• Excellent writing and verbal presentation skills

Firmware / Embedded Systems Engineer

It all starts with hardware. Occipital, Inc. is seeking an experienced Firmware or Embedded Systems Engineer to help build the hardware and software foundation of spatial computing.

The Hardware team at Occipital is a small, dynamic group with a variety of responsibilities. You will be working with Occipital’s computer vision, AR/VR, and robotics products, focusing on low-level firmware, host drivers and some application code.

We're looking for someone with:

• 3+ years of experience programming embedded devices
• Experience with electrical system debugging using multimeters, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers

Bonus points if you have experience with:

• Optical depth sensing & computer vision
• Embedded Linux
• USB 3.0 devices, drivers, & camera interfaces
• Robotics & autonomous systems
• Virtual Reality - system design or game development
• iOS Programming in Objective-C & C++
• Apple MFi (Made for iPad/iPhone)
• Android NDK
• Mass-production of consumer electronics
• Cross-disciplinary competency in another engineering field, such as optics or mechanical engineering

Electrical Engineer

It all starts with hardware. Occipital, Inc. is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to help build the hardware foundation of spatial computing.

The Hardware team at Occipital is a small, dynamic group with a variety of responsibilities. You will be working with Occipital’s computer vision, AR/VR, and robotics products, focusing on anything from PCB design, to low-level firmware & drivers. You will also be assisting in all stages of Product Development from early stage prototyping to late-stage mass production.

We're looking for someone with a minimum of:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and 4+ years of experience, or a comparable degree and experience combination.
• Demonstrated competency in Altium (preferred), EAGLE, or similar PCB design tools
• Experience with electrical system debugging using multimeters, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
• Experience with embedded systems design and programming
• Strong EE, CS theory and mathematical skills

Bonus points if you have experience or familiarity with any of the following:

• Apple MFi (Made for iPad/iPhone)
• USB 3.0 devices & camera interfaces
• Optical depth sensing & computer vision
• Design and integration of systems including cameras & optical components
• Robotics & autonomous systems
• iOS Programming in Objective-C & C++
• Mass-production of consumer electronics
• Cross-disciplinary competency in another engineering field, such as optics or mechanical engineering

Frontend Engineer

At Occipital, we’re working on spatial computing — using computer vision to 3D reconstruct and understand your surroundings so that software can operate over real world spaces. We’ve launched many products in this area, from hardware like Structure Sensor to software platforms like Occipital Tracking and apps such as Canvas. Our customers range from 10,000-employee enterprises to individual doctors, interior decorators, and hobbyists.

We are seeking a frontend engineer who is dedicated to creating engaging, attractive, performant user experiences for both Occipital’s customers and our team. In this role, you’ll use modern best practices for building interfaces in HTML/CSS/JavaScript while synthesizing input from multiple internal stakeholders to design, develop, and release new features, pages, and other functionality.

Occipital’s web team operates in a low-ego, highly collaborative, and focused environment — we take and give lots of feedback with the aim of the best idea winning. We strive to fix things twice and value pragmatism. The Occipital web team works every day to improve and add features to our growing list of products and services in the augmented/virtual/mixed reality space.

Candidates must be located or willing to re-locate to Boulder, Colorado or San Francisco, California. Compensation will be based on experience and skill, commensurate with market rates and will include both salary and equity in Occipital. Occipital is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment to our employees and welcome input from candidates and employees on how we can enhance our inclusiveness.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop customer-focused web applications from start to finish
• Collaborate across internal teams (such as customer support and graphic design)
• Anticipate and proactively solve UX issues with inclusive design
• Take strong ownership of your projects and drive them to completion
• Work closely with stakeholders to design and implement features

Qualifications:

• Detailed understanding of the DOM, HTML, CSS, Javascript without relying on frameworks — with live examples or video/screenshots you can show us
• Ability to create clean, attractive designs for pages you’re working on
• Working knowledge of Python or similar server-side language
• Well-versed in modern techniques and best practices for using graphics and video on the web (e.g. H264, when to use JPEG vs PNG)
• Experience building customer-focused WebGL applications
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with remote team members
• Familiarity with a relational database (we use Postgres)
• (Bonus) Familiarity with Django
• (Bonus) Familiarity with Docker
• (Bonus) Familiarity with Vue.js, Progressive Web Apps
• (Bonus) Experience with computer vision, augmented/virtual/mixed reality

Customer Experience Specialist

You love people. You love technology. You love people who love technology. And you like helping them when they run into a snag here or there.

While you may not have heard of Occipital, you’re probably familiar with a few of our current and past products. RedLaser and 360 Panorama, both phenomenal successes on the app store. Skanect Pro, one of the world’s premier 3D scanning suites. And the Structure Sensor, the first 3D sensor for mobile devices, and the 6th most successful Kickstarter technology project at the time of its launch.

Collectively, our products are used and loved by millions of people worldwide. Every now and then, however, a few of them run into a problem. Or they may have questions before they’re ready to make a purchase.

That’s where we need an exceptionally personable, technically adept representative to come in and make sure they’re not only heard, but helped as well.

Here’s the type of characteristics we appreciate in this role:

• Technical savvy: Our products are simple to use, but each are part of a bigger story with its own deep technical foundation. Many of our most communicative customers are highly knowledgeable about that story, and expect us to understand it as well as they do (and, by the way, we know it better than they do!).
• Attention to detail: We strive for perfection in all that we do, whether it is creating a beautifully simple user interface, or writing clear, concise and error-free responses to our customers.
• Comfort with ambiguity: New products don’t always come with well-defined answers or common questions. The ability to think on the fly and find the right resources for an elusive answer are key.
• Drive and responsibility: We’re all driven self-starters. If we’re blocked in doing our job, we proactively find out how to unblock ourselves and keep moving forward.
• Fun to be around: We spend a lot of time together, so it’s important that we all like each other too. We have a diverse team from many different backgrounds, but the one common thread is that we’re all nice people who like to make work fun.

Here are the responsibilities for the job:

• Quickly get up to speed on Occipital products and their technical underpinnings. Understand frequently asked questions, and the answers to those questions.
• Learn the systems that Occipital uses to manage customer support. Learn new systems that we may start using.
• Provide exceptional support to customers both before and after purchase/adoption of our products, with a focus on rapid response, accurate information and a friendly demeanor.
• Pay attention to trends in customer support and report back to marketing and the CX team manager on a regular basis.
• Help manage physical product returns process.
• Work with outside vendors (shipping and fulfillment, for instance) to rapidly resolve customer support issues that originate outside of Occipital.

This full-time position available in our Boulder, CO office.

Robotics Engineers are adventurous by nature. They work with the entire software stack, from firmware to high-level UX, and use this knowledge to integrate new features in all manner of robotics hardware. They also work closely with our calibration stack, the bedrock of our visual-inertial systems. A good quality calibration is always the first building block in an amazing spatial computing experience, and improvements made here improve the quality of the entire computer vision pipeline.

Communication of this work through writing and design is just as important as the work itself. We have partners that rely on our advances to make their own products shine; it takes a capable, multi-disciplinary team to make sure the hardware + software works, and works well.

Candidates must be located or willing to relocate to Boulder, Colorado. If you’re passionate about the following topics and love to own your work, we want you on the team:

• Sensor experience: Cameras, IMU, LiDAR, Depth, etc.
• Calibration for visual-inertial systems
• Non-linear optimization
• Multi-view geometry/photogrammetry
• C/C++ programming and optimization experience
• Windows/OSX/Linux platform development
• Strong writing and documentation skills

Any experience with the below is a plus:

• Dense, Sparse, Semi-dense SLAM systems
• UI/UX theory and design
• ROS use and package maintenance
• Native mobile development (iOS, Android)
• Optical depth sensing systems
• Mass production of consumer electronics

At Occipital, we don’t just anticipate the future; we build products that make it reality. Along with tackling diverse technical challenges, that means that we must also create marketing programs to make more of the world aware of what’s now possible.

Some of the challenges we address regularly include:

• How do you get a consumer to want something they’ve only just discovered a minute ago?
• How do we establish evergreen awareness for new technologies and concepts?
• How do we define and where do we find scalable audiences that will adopt cutting edge products?
• How do we effectively communicate to a diverse set of users, including developers, business buyers and consumers?

As part of the marketing team at Occipital, you’ll get to work on these challenges and many others. There’s no marketing playbook for where we’re going; rather, we get to write it as we go. Therefore, our ideal candidate will be comfortable being out of their comfort zone and in a constant state of experimentation today to determine what will become standard practice tomorrow.

Among the skills you’ll need to succeed, we’re particularly interested in the following:

• Content Creation:
  • Create both long and short form content (written and visual)
  • Experience building and maintaining editorial calendars for content
  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (in particular, PhotoShop and Illustrator) or similar creative suites like Affinity, Inkscape, etc
  • Presentation creation (PowerPoint, Keynote)
• Social Media:
  • Create compelling content
  • Grow, maintain and continually engage relevant audiences
• Events:
  • Create a calendar of suggested local, national and international events to attend
  • Create and help to present compelling webinars
• Analytics
  • Assess results from initiatives and make invest/divest decisions
• Advertising
  • Create paid search, display, social and traditional media ads
  • Justify media buys and balance budgets to test new venues
• Press
  • Develop relationships with key media personnel
  • Create stories that will attract top-tier media coverage
• Research
  • Discover audience insights
  • Uncover patterns of product usage

This position is located in San Francisco, CA or Boulder, CO and reports directly to the VP of Marketing.

Occipital, Inc. is seeking an experienced and highly motivated business development professional to develop and lead tactical and strategic programs that will materially impact company growth.

The right candidate will step into a position where some of the groundwork has already been laid; however, there is optimization to be done, and the opportunity to own creation and execution of new strategies and programs that add to what has already been built.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Building upon and extending an existing successful global authorized reseller program
• Create and execute a channel strategy to bring Occipital products to distributors worldwide
• Research industry verticals that can use Occipital products and build programs around those verticals to recruit and monetize partners
• Create training and sales content to help partners properly represent and sell Occipital
• products
• Research, write and modify legal documentation
• Filter and manage inbound business and partnership requests
• Provide ongoing account management and act as the primary source of contact to existing and new partners
• Report financial results and forecasts for business development activities

The right candidate:

• Is highly entrepreneurial and motivated
• Is technically astute
• Has intellectual curiosity about new areas of technical development
• Understands how to balance the pursuit of revenue generation vis a vis the right partnerships
• Has advanced communication skills (both written and oral)
• Has excellent negotiation skills
• Has solid financial modeling and forecasting skills
• Is adaptable to a fast changing environment
• Is a cultural fit for our team

Extra consideration for:

• Understanding channel management in the consumer electronics industry
• Prior experience in business development for cutting edge consumer products
• Existing relationships with potential partners who are a fit for Occipital’s products

Field Application Engineer

Occipital is one of the world’s leading SLAM and spatial computing companies. We are working hard not only creating cutting edge technology, but also selling our solutions to AR/VR HMD and robotics companies around the world. We’re looking for a trailblazer to tap into the growing Asia-Pacific market. The candidate needs to be adept at hands-on coding in addition to providing customer-facing, local on-site support. This position would also involve account management further down the road.

Occipital is committed to creating spatially-aware solutions that just work. We love it when our products deliver a seamless computer vision experience, and so do our customers. We’re looking for engineers that want to develop and hone this experience on all of our platforms, large and small.

The Field Application Engineer role is multidisciplinary:

• Cross-platform: Comfortable working on Windows, Linux, Android, macOS, etc.
• Comfortable with software design principles, not just hacking around. You’ll be diving deep into the heart of our systems, and you should know how to find your way around.
• Great communication in both Mandarin and English: communicating solutions with clarity and courtesy to internal dev teams, partners, and customers.
• An engineer with business sense: You’ll perform a mix of engineering and sales/marketing/business development. You should have the know-how to work through engineering problems, but also have the finesse to talk and work with external teams, and perform their job duties while reducing need support from the USA-side team.

Responsibilities:

• Investigate, research, debug, and solve integration problems.
• Perform demos for our potential customers in the Asia-Pacific territory, with occasional demo tweaking for special requirements.
• Help our partners evaluate Occipital’s technology with the goal to make a design win with important customers.
• Support partners with app development and support and build technical demonstrations.
• Build and sanity test release binaries and push new releases to production.
• Work with our internal and open source git repos, as well as our automated build & testing systems.
• Build understanding about the wide variety of software across our platform at a deep engineering level.
• Enhance, expand, and develop documentation, resource materials, and technical FAQs.
• Profile and optimize complex computer vision applications, graphics, and UI.
• Quickly develop prototype and sample applications for various platforms.
• Manage and participate in developer discussion forums and support queues to debug and resolve technical/coding issues.
• Work around sometimes-strict deadlines, and know how to best organize priorities.
• Reach out to many potential customers, engage with the right teams, and convince the right decision makers to adopt our products and technology.

Work Culture & Expectations:

• Self-motivated and able to work remotely while the core team is in the US.
• Able to work with the engineering team on the technical side, as well as business development team on the sales opportunities side.
• Track many details (attention to detail) while maintaining the big picture.
• Personable, and able to connect and build relationships within the industry.
• Ability to take the initiative and promote Occipital products to partners.
• Travel required in China, USA, Taiwan, and potentially Korea and Japan.
• Great teamwork and interpersonal skills, strong written and verbal communication skills, proactive attitude, and a drive for results.
• Demonstrated creative problem-solving approach and strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.

Qualifications:

• Experience working on Windows, Linux, Android, macOS, etc.
• Experience with API design (.h files, documentation, sample code, etc).
• Significant experience programming in C++, Objective-C, OpenGL, and scripting languages.
• Understanding of 3D mathematics and algorithms.
• Experience with Git version control, especially rebase, branching, and merging.
• A history of shipping code: side projects, products, open source.
• Bachelor or equivalent degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience in the industry. Master or equivalent degree recommended.

Pluses:

• 2+ years experience of graphics and real-time performance optimization.
• 2+ years of experience in software engineering, release engineering.
• Prior experience engaging with customers / outside developers directly.
• GPGPU (OpenCL/Metal/CUDA)
• Prior knowledge or hands-on experience in image processing or computer vision, robotics research and experience in mapping and navigation in visual SLAM and dense reconstruction.
• Prior experience developing mixed and virtual reality applications.

At Occipital, we believe that spatial is the next frontier in computing. Our first step was to enable everyone to capture the world in 3D, so we created Structure Sensor, a depth sensor for iPad, the first of its kind and one of the top-funded Kickstarter projects in 2013. Now, we have more cool products coming to change the world, and we need your help to make these new things happen.

We are seeking a Manufacturing and Supply Chain Intern to join us in our San Francisco office for a challenging, hands-on and exciting experience.

In Manufacturing and Supply Chain team, we work from product concept, spec definition, sourcing, engineering verification and production to shipping final products. We focus on NPI projects as much as we handle sustaining operations. The internship in our Manufacturing and Supply Chain team will work in a variety of functional areas, such as planning, manufacturing, regulatory compliance, quality, project management, strategy, sourcing and logistics.

During this internship program, you will be involved in 2 perspectives. The first part will be helping us maintain the operations of existing products. The second part will be helping with new product development.

You will need to apply your classroom knowledge in a fast-paced and growing industry to impact the development and manufacturing of cutting-edge products. We need a quick learner who can pick up new knowledge as challenges arise. Also, we need someone who is able to think independently, analyze and provide solutions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) in related field, such as Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management or Business Administration
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time position
• Self-starter and detail-oriented
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, risk assessment, and analytical skills
• Able to manage priorities and workflows

Preferred:

• Start-up experience
• Electrical, optical, accounting, legal, statistics, or computer vision related experience
• Able to speak Mandarin and read/write Chinese