Senior or Staff Computer Vision Engineer

Hover helps people design, improve, and protect the properties they love. With proprietary AI built on over a decade of real property data, Hover answers age-old questions like “What will it look like?” and “What will it cost?” Homeowners, contractors, and insurance professionals rely on Hover to get fully measured, accurate, and interactive 3D models of any property — all from a smartphone scan in minutes. At Hover, we’re driven by curiosity, purpose, and a shared commitment to serving our customers, communities, and each other. We believe the best ideas come from diverse perspectives and are proud to cultivate an inclusive, high-performance culture that inspires growth, accountability, and excellence. Backed by leading investors like Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, and trusted by industry leaders including Travelers, State Farm, and Nationwide — we’re redefining how people understand and interact with their spaces. Why Hover wants you We’re expanding Hover’s 3D Reconstruction platform to solve one of our most ambitious technical challenges: transforming real-world sensor data into accurate, structured, CAD-quality models at scale. Computer Vision doesn’t just support Hover’s products, it defines them. We’re looking for either a Senior or Staff Computer Vision Engineer who can turn cutting-edge research into scalable production capabilities while helping shape the future of our reconstruction systems. This role is ideal for someone who wants to own meaningful technical work end to end, move quickly without large-company bureaucracy, and help build accurate digital twin models of the real world at scale. You’ll work across research, experimentation, and production: reading papers, reproducing and adapting promising academic approaches, training deep learning models, designing rigorous experiments, building proof-of-concepts, and turning successful ideas into robust engineered systems that reach users. At the Staff level, this role is ideal for a technical leader who is equally comfortable with deep 3D reconstruction work, product strategy, architectural tradeoffs, experiment design, and production deployment. You’ll help connect long-term technical vision, day-to-day engineering execution, and market-driven product needs so Hover’s CV roadmap delivers maximum customer and business impact. You’ll join a high-performing team of computer vision researchers, reconstruction engineers, graphics specialists, and 3D modelers building systems that turn real-world capture into accurate digital twin models at commercial scale. You will contribute by In this role, you will design, prototype, evaluate, and productionize advanced computer vision and deep learning systems for 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, semantic modeling, and structured property representation. You will work across the full lifecycle of applied research and engineering: identifying relevant academic and industry approaches, writing project plans and technical specs, building proof-of-concepts, training and evaluating models, analyzing reconstruction quality and performance, and integrating successful approaches into production systems. You will partner closely with 3D reconstruction, Product, Design, Engineering, modeling, infrastructure, graphics, frontend, and backend teams to turn ambiguous technical and customer needs into clearly scoped experiments and production capabilities. Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, clear communication, and the ability to make practical tradeoffs between research quality, user impact, production constraints, performance, reliability, and cost. Your work may include mobile capture, aerial imagery, multimodal sensor fusion, multi-view reconstruction, pose estimation, feature matching, dense geometry, model fitting, semantic understanding, volumetric, surfel, or surface-based representations, CAD-quality structured outputs, and emerging methods such as Gaussian Splatting, VLMs, or foundation-model-style app