Engineering · Full-time · United Kingdom
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 3.5 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.
Mapbox is building a live location platform. Our maps represent the ever-evolving world, accessing, aggregating, and adapting anonymous data from millions of sensors and phones in real-time. Mapbox has the exciting opportunity to power devices and products across the next frontier in location-based data. Whether you’re watching the delivery of your grocery order on Instacart, tracking your personal best mile on Strava, sending snaps on Snapchat, monitoring your gas budget on Metromile, or checking today’s forecast on The Weather Channel, Mapbox is the location and maps within those apps. We’re changing how people move by live-mapping the world.
What We Do
As the 3D graphics team, we use our engineering skills and curiosity to push the boundaries of what’s possible with interactive maps and how people use location technologies in their daily lives. We work on state-of-the-art platforms, largely open-source, for map interaction and visualization used by millions of people around the globe.
What You’ll Do
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
Curiosity, enthusiasm, eagerness to solve challenging technical problems in the geo and data visualization space using emerging technologies.
Empathy and kindness; willingness to learn from different perspectives and patience to help others grow.
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with distributed teams.
Experience in coming up with solutions to geometric problems and developing generalized and robust algorithms
Strong in C++, Python, algorithms and performance optimization.
Strong in 3D Mesh / computational geometry processing techniques and being able to apply them to a wide range of problems.
Helpful experience that is a plus but not a requirement
In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
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