Principal Engineer

Spatial Magic
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Posted
June 3, 2026
Full Time
Venice Beach, CA
Remote

We're building ground-breaking spatially intelligent real-time experiences - body tracking, interactive 3D, computer vision—for the devices people already own. Join an elite team that’s shipping regularly. Work from an awesome Frank Gehry-designed loft on Venice Beach.

 

What You'll Do

You'll own major technical surface areas and work directly alongside the CTO. This is hands-on - you're in the code, not managing from a distance.

  • Architect and build core systems across Unity, computer vision, and real-time 3D.
  • Make hard calls on performance, tooling, and technical direction.
  • Move fluidly across domains - graphics, ML integration, platform, infrastructure - depending on what needs solving.
  • Prototype fast, ship, iterate, get things in front of users.
  • Push back when something feels wrong. Propose better approaches.

 

Who You Are

  • 8+ years building real-time applications - games, graphics, spatial computing, or similar.
  • Strong in Unity (C#) but not boxed in by it. Comfortable going lower when needed.
  • Experience with computer vision, body tracking, or AI/ML integration in real-time contexts.
  • Generalist instincts. You learn what you need to learn.
  • Taste. You notice when something's off and you fix it.
  • Bias to action. Bias toward building over talking.

 

Nice to Have

  • Distributed systems engineering
  • Mobile app development (iOS/Android)
  • Real-time rendering optimization (mobile/web constraints)
  • Gaussian splat rendering or novel 3D representations
  • Procedural animation, biomechanics, or movement systems
  • WebRTC or real-time networking

 

Why Join Us?

You'll join a world-leading team that has created spatial products and technologies used daily by 100s of millions of people, understand the journey of successfully starting and growing a startup—and know what it takes to scale a young company to IPO and beyond. We are now building the next era of spatially intelligent computing, for everyone.

  • Work on cutting-edge spatial intelligence and computer vision projects in gaming and fitness.
  • Shape the technical direction of a high-growth, high-impact company.
  • Ship products that reach users quickly and at scale—no red tape.
  • Competitive compensation, equity opportunities, and a flexible work environment.

 

Compensation

  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • A full-suite of benefits from Healthcare to 401k offered.
  • Team meals, side-quests, and retreats.

 

Location

Venice Beach, Los Angeles (in-person preferred)

About
Spatial Magic

Join us in creating new real-time, spatially intelligent 3D experiences powered by computer vision and machine learning that are fun, accessible, and useful–and built for the computing devices we already own and use every day.

We want people who have a bias for building over having endless meetings, love to reason from first-principles, and are excited to bring new culture shaping products to life.

If you love to quickly prototype new ideas, invest in the magic of creating moment-to-moment flow, and have passion for developing robust and scalable real-time 3D technologies and systems, then this is a fit.

We pay competitively, provide fantastic benefits, and work from an incredible Frank Gehry-designed artist loft on the beach in Venice, Los Angeles. We prefer to work in-person, but are open to hybrid and remote opportunities for the right candidates.

The Aura Touchless Spatial Interface is built with frontier Spatial Intelligence to speak your body’s natural language. It's so natural, you already know how to use it. The way we move to interact with the physical world feels seamless and perfect. Aura makes digital interaction feel just as natural.

We grew up skateboarding, and playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater. One of these pushed our bodies to do more, and the other one pushed our imaginations for what could even be possible. Given the power of this combo, we thought it would be fun to combine our physical spatial intelligence with new digital spatial intelligence, and see where it might take us.

We are using our Aura touchless spatial interface, which makes every movement incredibly instinctual and natural. Together they close the gap between our physical movements and our digital movements. Skate Moves feels instantly great to play.

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