RESEARCH

At Meta’s Reality Labs, our goal is to make world-class consumer virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. Come work alongside industry-leading scientists and engineers to create the technology that makes VR and AR pervasive and universal. Join the adventure of a lifetime as we make science fiction real and change the world. We are a world-class team of researchers and engineers creating the future of augmented and virtual reality, which together will become as universal and essential as smartphones and personal computers are today. And just as personal computers have done over the past 45 years, AR and VR will ultimately change everything about how we work, play, and connect.We are developing all the technologies needed to enable breakthrough Smartglasses, AR glasses and VR headsets, including optics and displays, computer vision, audio, graphics, brain-computer interfaces, haptic interaction, eye/hand/face/body tracking, perception science, and true telepresence. Some of those will advance much faster than others, but they all need to happen to enable AR and VR that are so compelling that they become an integral part of our lives.The Audio team at Meta Reality Labs is looking for a Research Engineer to lead on the design and development of large-scale data collection and processing systems to enable research & development of audio AR & VR technologies. You will be providing technical direction for engineers on the team and working closely with other researchers and engineers building novel computational & machine learning systems.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of experience in the design, development, integration and testing of systems featuring hardware and software
• 3+ years experience with Python
• 2+ years experience of providing technical leadership, setting direction for other engineers
• Experience with networking and shell scripting
• Experience with interpersonal skills working effectively across groups and disciplines
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with audio
• Understanding of 3D mathematics, applied linear algebra and applied statistics
• Understanding of visual and other sensors (e.g. motion capture and IMU), with experience in sensor and camera calibration
• Experience with early stage research and rapid prototyping
• Experience developing large data collection systems and datasets for machine learning, including systems for capturing, processing, annotating and storage
  For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position.

• Ownership and leadership on design and development of data collection systems, solving unique engineering challenges in creating complex multi-modal systems used in large-scale human-oriented data collection
• Design and implementation of tooling for data processing, visualization and management
• Influencing the team-wide strategy for data collection and associated ML system and model training and evaluation with innovative engineering approaches to meet varied and evolving needs
• Data analysis with great attention to detail to identify future data quality improvements
• Learning constantly, diving into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embracing the ambiguity of AR/VR problem solving