Software Engineering Intern

Software Engineering Intern - Summer 2025

Niantic’s mission is to use emerging technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. We build products that inspire movement, exploration, and face-to-face social interaction.

Niantic’s Engineering Team is seeking interns to work on advancing our real-world augmented reality (AR) games and our developer platform. You’ll grow your skills quickly while being mentored by an experienced team of server, gaming, mobile, full-stack and computer vision engineers and data scientists. Our technical challenges include data consistency across distributed systems, creating compelling gameplay for a global user base working with geo data at scale, and innovating in augmented reality. Niantic Engineering leads the advancement of augmented reality and other immersive technologies while creating engaging apps for a user base in the billions. Come empower players on a game board consisting of the entire world!

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features and improvements that make a positive impact on billions of users.
• Develop well-tuned code that may be included as part of our next software release.
• Work closely with new and emerging technologies in the real-world AR gaming space.

Qualifications

• Graduating in 2026, or 2027 with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Previous internship experience as a software engineer.
• Excellent coding, problem solving, and debugging skills.
• Proven understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• Knowledge of software engineering processes and tools (e.g., programming proficiency in an object-oriented language, algorithms and data structures).

Plus If…

• You love Augmented Reality.
• You helped to build scalable systems, games, or web experiences in your previous internships.

Additional Internship Details

• In-Person Internships: San Francisco Bay Area & Seattle Area
• 12 Week Internship
• Competitive Pay: $51-56/hr (dependent on location and degree level)
• Relocation Assistance
• In-Office Lunches & Snacks
• Dogfood our Games!
• Fun Activities: Learning & Social
• Niantic Swag!
• Network building with other interns & Niantics!

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zurich. #LI-HYBRID