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title: 'Applied Researcher - All Levels at Miris'
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# Applied Researcher - All Levels at Miris

- **Company:** Miris
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $89k–$287k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris/jobs/4010810009

## Job description

Building something ambitious requires focus, resilience, and a willingness to take on challenging work. At Miris, we believe that this work can be deeply meaningful when it is supported by a strong team, a clear sense of purpose, and a shared commitment to achieving important outcomes. We are looking for people who are energized by complex problems and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

The Opportunity:

Miris is seeking exceptional and outcome-focused Applied Researchers at all levels to join our friendly and fully remote R&D team. You will navigate the fast-moving Gaussian splatting/radiance field research to find and adapt existing techniques and identify where to push beyond the bleeding edge to deliver exceptional immersive streaming experiences to low-powered mobile devices.

This is an applied role; you will take ideas from the theoretical stage, through prototyping, and all the way to successful production rollout. You will work in a highly collaborative environment, closely partnering with our rendering engineers and cloud/content processing teams to build a seamless end-to-end system that transforms varied user inputs (photogrammetry, 3D models) into exceptional spatial experiences.

As a remote-first company with a globally distributed team, we value thoughtful collaboration, accountability, and trust. We also believe that every candidate should have an ownership mindset and the opportunity to share in the success they help create, which is why stock options are a significant portion of this role's compensation package.

What You'll Do:

- Conduct applied research into novel methods for representing, compressing, and streaming animated 3D content, with a strong focus on Gaussian splatting and efficiency for low-power mobile AR/VR devices
- Quickly develop proof-of-concepts and transition successful experiments to production-ready code to advance our streaming pipeline
- Design and evaluate algorithms for spatial data optimization, compression, and adaptive streaming based on network conditions and device capabilities
- Contribute to solutions for challenging problems like animated content, real-time relighting, integrating content into an AR environment, and facilitating open-world VR experiences
- Work closely with rendering engineers to define data formats, rendering pipelines, and performance targets optimized for mobile hardware.
- Collaborate with cloud and content processing engineers to establish robust and efficient workflows for automated processing of diverse user input data into our streaming format
- Proactively follow and apply the latest computer graphics research related to novel view synthesis on mobile devices, such as radiance fields, differentiable rendering, and photogrammetry
- Clearly communicate research findings and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

What You'll Bring:

- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
- Proven track record leading research which advances the state-of-the-art in areas such as radiance fields, photogrammetry, machine learning for graphics, or real-time rendering with publications in top-tier conferences or journals in related fields (e.g., SIGGRAPH, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML)
- Strong understanding of modern 3D rendering pipelines and concepts
- Experience with radiance fields (e.g., Gaussian splatting, NeRF) and related novel spatial representation techniques is highly desirable.
- Excellent programming skills in Python and C++
- Experience with performance optimization and writing efficient code for resource-constrained environments
- Ability to quickly understand and implement complex research papers
- Demonstrated ability to be outcome-focused and deliver working code that solves real-world problems
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Target Base Salary Range $89,155—$287,488 USD

About Us:

Miris is a cutting-edge technology company building the future of 3D content delivery at global scale. Our mission is to empower creators and developers to deliver high-fidelity, photorealistic 3D experiences to billions of users instantly, seamlessly, and across all major platforms and devices. Backed by patented innovations, Miris leverages state-of-the-art advancements in neural rendering, including radiance fields, Gaussian splatting, and new AI-assisted graphics approaches. Our platform unlocks the ability to deliver complex digital scenes, anywhere and anytime, without making compromises on speed, cost, and scale.

Compensation:

At Miris, our compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain top talent. We offer fair pay that reflects the value of each role within our organization and the broader market. We believe that every employee who brings impact should share in our success with equity options as a key component of our compensation package. Base salary is influenced by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and responsibilities of the role, internal equity across similar roles, external market benchmarks for comparable positions, and the candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Flexible Spending Account for medical and dependent expenses
- Flexible working hours
- Generous PTO Program
- 401K plan
- Technology stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Equity options

Globally, benefits may vary depending on a candidate's location

## About Miris

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Miris builds the infrastructure layer for streaming high-fidelity 3D content to any device at internet scale, making 3D as easy to deliver as video.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; hubs in the United States and New Zealand
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Sean Looper (CEO), Marlin Prager (CBO), Max Leitman (CPO), Will McDonald (CTO), Erik Smith, Doug Smith, Bryan Saftler

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: 3D Streaming Infrastructure, Real-Time Graphics, Spatial Computing, Developer Tools
- **Target customers**: B2B — developers, engineering teams, and enterprises in gaming, architecture/engineering/construction (AEC), e-commerce, media, and XR who need to stream large 3D assets (CAD models, photogrammetry scans, game assets) to web, mobile, and headset users.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build the infrastructure that streams 3D at internet scale." The company aims to close the gap between 3D content creation and delivery, enabling sub-200ms renders with zero per-user GPU cost.

## Products & Services
- **Miris 3D Streaming Platform (Beta)**: A developer-first infrastructure platform that ingests 3D assets (up to 10GB in OpenUSD format), automatically generates multi-resolution LODs and compressed textures, then streams them via a global CDN with predictive loading. Delivers photorealistic 3D in under 200ms on desktop, mobile, and WebXR headsets — without requiring users to download a native app.
- **Web SDK**: ~18KB gzipped JavaScript/TypeScript SDK that integrates with React, Vue, vanilla JS, and three.js. Developers embed a component in their existing web app to instantly render streamed 3D models.
- **Native SDKs (Roadmap)**: Mobile and game engine SDKs (Unity, Unreal) are in development for beta participation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Successfully launched a public beta in March 2026 following a Series A round.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by **IAG Capital Partners** [miris.com](https://www.miris.com/who-we-are)
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2024, launched public beta in March 2026, and is actively hiring across engineering, ML, and business development roles. The company is building for a market where AI is rapidly accelerating 3D content creation but delivery infrastructure remains underdeveloped.

## Competitive Advantages
- **CDN Economics, Not GPU Farms**: Unlike competitors that rely on expensive server-side GPU rendering, Miris streams pre-optimized assets from edge CDN nodes, making the platform cost-scalable for high-traffic applications.
- **Zero Lock-in**: The SDK is built on standard web components and patterns — removing it doesn’t break the app. Integrates with existing three.js/WebGL pipelines without re-architecture.
- **Adaptive Fidelity Engine**: ML-driven optimization that analyzes geometry complexity, texture resolution, and material composition per asset, then adapts quality in real time based on viewport, device capability, and network conditions.
- **Cross-Device, No Native App**: A single asset streams in full fidelity to any modern browser — laptop, phone, or WebXR headset — without platform-specific builds.

## Strategic Focus
- **Developer Ecosystem**: Building a "developer-first" platform with SDKs for React, Vue, Unity, and native mobile, plus open engineering support for every beta participant.
- **AEC Market Entry**: Actively hiring a Senior Business Development Manager for the Architecture, Engineering & Construction industry to drive partnerships and adoption.
- **Real-Time ML Research**: Investing in applied ML for real-time quality optimization, predictive bandwidth allocation, and client-side reconstruction.
- **Global Infrastructure**: Expanding edge CDN footprint and predictive loading to ensure sub-second response times regardless of asset complexity or user location.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully Remote & Distributed**: "Work from anywhere" — the team is globally distributed with hubs in the US and New Zealand. Async-first culture with no relocation required. [miris.com/careers](https://www.miris.com/careers)
- **Small, Senior Team**: Backgrounds in streaming infrastructure, game engines, and creative tools. "Quality-obsessed" and built by people who "love to solve problems."
- **Compelling Mission**: "Build what doesn't exist yet" — the opportunity to build the infrastructure layer for 3D at internet scale, analogous to what video streaming did for media.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary + meaningful equity, unlimited PTO (14 company holidays + extended breaks), medical/dental/vision, disability & life insurance, flexible sick leave, home office setup stipend, wellness stipend, connectivity allowance, parental leave, and an annual learning budget for conferences and courses.
- **Open Roles**: Actively hiring Applied Researchers (ML), Web Graphics Engineers, Graphics R&D Engineers, and a Senior Business Development Manager (AEC). [job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris)

## Sources
1. [miris.com](https://www.miris.com/)
2. [miris.com/careers](https://www.miris.com/careers)
3. [miris.com/who-we-are](https://www.miris.com/who-we-are)
4. [miris.com/our-team](https://miris.com/our-team/)
5. [LinkedIn - Miris Inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/miris-inc)
6. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/miris)

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