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

Looking for a different kind of mobile challenge? We're powering the next generation of spatial apps that break through our screens and interact with the world around us. That means we not only have all the 'standard' mobile product development challenges, but we're also writing the playbook for UX, best practices, etc. Whereas most startups are looking for innovators, we're looking for pioneers.

If that sentence excites rather than frightens you, you're probably the kind of person we want to talk to! We're looking for:

• Strong UIKit-level iOS skills. We’re going to want to see a portfolio of published apps, ideally ones that you have taken from beginning to end as a primary engineering owner.
• A solid engineering foundation. The complexity of the kind of work we do means writing clean, performant code is doubly important. You should be comfortable dealing with threading and networking, and not afraid to look at C++.
• An eye for design and UX. Every member of the product teams at Occipital has to first and foremost be a UX thinker, no matter what part of the product you touch.
• Ideally, comfort working with OpenGL, SceneKit, and other graphics frameworks.

Already, we've launched products like Structure Sensor and SDK, Bridge and Bridge Engine, 360 Panorama, and Canvas. While you will likely end up specializing in certain products over others, you will probably get a chance to interface with every single one of them in some way.

Obviously, we're looking for all the buzz words you'd expect: talented, hard-working, communicative, etc. No one has ever saw that in a job description and said, Oh! I need to be a hard-worker? Better not apply. Here are a few things critical at Occipital that might not be elsewhere:

• Uncertainty-resistant. There's no right answer for the experiences we create & it's up to us to figure it out.
• Autonomous. We have a strong orientation toward people that know how to figure things out on their own. That doesn't mean don't ask questions!
• Holistic, Beginning-to-End Thinkers. For this role in particular, we're looking for people that know how to build products from beginning to end, not just churn out code. Show us what you've shipped!
• Willingness to go under the hood. What we're building is complicated, and you need to know your way around iOS on more than a surface level. Hacking stuff together using Apple's native APIs is great, but we want to see that you can go deeper when necessary.

Major points for any 3D or computer vision related experience!

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

Assistant Controller

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 multi-billion dollar OEMs to individual doctors, interior decorators, and hobbyists.

We are seeking an Assistant Controller who is dedicated to creating meaningful, timely and accurate financial and operational reports. Reporting directly to the CFO/COO the position presents an opportunity for the right candidate to become the company controller over time. The Assistant Controller will be responsible for the monthly close process, taking direct responsibility over revenue and cost accounting and supervising balance sheet and expense reconciliations performed by the Senior Accountant with the ultimate goal of making Occipital “audit-ready”. The Assistant Controller will work closely with the internal data management team to develop automated transaction reports to feed the general ledger, reconcile with third party data sources, and feed operational dashboards that will provide key performance indicators to constituencies throughout the business.

Occipital 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.

Candidates must be located or willing to re-locate to Boulder, Colorado. 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:

• Prepare financial statements
• Establish internal policies and systems for revenue recognition and cost accounting
• Collaborate with technical leadership to build an “accounting data warehouse” for use in feeding the general ledger
• Create KPI reports for use throughout the organization
• Supervise payroll, accounts payable and other accounting staff
• Establish financial policies and internal controls in support of an eventual financial audit

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting
• Prior experience in cost accounting, particularly for hardware
• Strong understanding of data and transaction intensive environments
• Experience in a startup environment
• Experience in public accounting a plus
• Excellent written and visual communication skills
• A flexible mindset

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

Embedded Systems Engineering Intern or Co-Op

Location: Boulder, CO - Spring 2018 or Summer 2018

It all starts with hardware. Occipital, Inc. is seeking Embedded Systems Engineering Interns 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 anything from PCB design, to low-level firmware & drivers, up to application code.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering major
• Strong EE or CS theory and mathematical skills
• Experience with embedded systems design and programming
• Experience with electrical system debugging using multimeters, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
• Competency in EAGLE, Altium, or similar PCB design tools

Bonus points if you have:

• An awesome project or product you made that you can show us

Experience or familiarity with any of the following:

• Optical depth sensing & computer vision
• USB 3.0 devices & camera interfaces
• Cameras & optical systems
• Robotics & autonomous systems
• iOS Programming in Objective-C & C++
• Android NDK
• Mass-production of consumer electronics
• Apple MFi (Made for iPad/iPhone)

• 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

Do you want to push the boundaries of what’s possible in web technology to help build the future of augmented reality and virtual reality? Can you not only build a mental map of a complex backend system, but also leverage it to build reliant, performant, and elegant web applications? Do you have a deep understanding of how networking, databases, and servers work down to the bare metal? Then we really want to meet you.

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 backend engineer who is dedicated to creating performant web applications for both Occipital’s customers and our team. In this role, you’ll use modern best practices for building for the web while synthesizing input from multiple internal stakeholders to design, develop, and release new features, pages, and other functionality. Web team functions as the glue that connects the different groups inside Occipital, touching areas like customer experience, supply chain, e-commerce, mobile app APIs, computer vision, remote data processing, and even accounting and finance.

Occipital’s web team strives for 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.

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 computer vision)
• Take strong ownership of your projects and drive them to completion
• Work closely with stakeholders to design and implement features

Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of Python
• Extensive experience with relational databases (we use Postgres)
• Working knowledge of Javascript and frontend technologies, since you’ll be working closely with our frontend engineers
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with remote team members
• Willingness to go under the hood — what we're building is complicated, and you need to know your way around software on more than a surface level
• (Bonus) Experience with Django
• (Bonus) Familiarity with Docker
• (Bonus) Experience with computer vision, augmented/virtual/mixed reality
• (Bonus) ETL and data warehousing experience

Calibration is an essential ingredient in Occipital’s spatial computing platform. Good quality calibrations bring out the best in our hardware and software; poor results ruin the entire experience. Creating and maintaining Occipital’s calibration systems is an important task, one that evolves with the entire platform.

Calibration Software Engineers are adventurous by nature. The calibration platform touches every hardware and software product at Occipital, so engineers are expected to work confidently in unfamiliar territory on a regular basis. Communication of their work through writing and design is just as important as the work itself; teams both inside and outside of Occipital rely on a solid user experience to make calibration as painless as possible. In addition, Calibration Software Engineers explore the entire software stack, from firmware to high-level UX, to seamlessly integrate results.

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:

• Calibration methodologies and theories for visual-inertial systems
• Visual-Inertial hardware experience
• Bundle adjustment and non-linear optimization
• Multi-view geometry
• Extensive C/C++ programming and optimization experience
• Native mobile development (iOS, Android)
• Windows/OSX/Linux platform development
• UI/UX theory and design
• Strong writing and documentation skills

Any experience with the below are a plus:

• Dense, Sparse, Semi-dense SLAM systems
• Optical depth sensing systems
• Robotics and autonomous 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