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Meta Software Engineer - OS Frameworks (Technical Leadership) in London, United Kingdom

Summary:

The Reality Labs team at Meta enables people around the world to come together and connect through world-class Augmented and Virtual Reality hardware and software. With global departments dedicated to AR/VR research, computer vision, haptics, social interaction, and more, AR/VR is committed to driving the state-of-the-art forward through relentless innovation. Our teams explore, develop, and deliver new cutting-edge technologies that serve as the foundation of current and future AR/VR products. As an Embedded Software Engineer within Reality Labs, you will develop the software behind some of our flagship AR and VR products, the prototyping platforms that make these products possible, or foster our scientific explorations. You will collaborate with highly diverse teams, threading together newly developed technologies to create intuitive experiences that enhance people’s experience of the world around them. Ultimately, we are improving AR/VR experiences through effective utilization of hardware resources i.e. optimization of code (app to system), balancing software across various hardware blocks, as well as designing features to enable higher utilization of hardware.

Required Skills:

Software Engineer - OS Frameworks (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:

  1. Drive the organization’s goal towards building tools, system architecture, prototypes, frameworks and infrastructure for any of the following: operating systems, kernel development, low level debugging, system profiling, sensor/data management, AOSP, performance profiling, that will impact VR and AR product lines.

  2. Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail while advocating for higher product quality and engineering efficiency.

  3. Lead and set direction for how Meta Reality Labs develops its capabilities for teams to deliver best-in-class experiences for current and future products.

  4. Collaborate with cross-functional teams of partners, product managers and engineers in areas like computer vision, machine learning, graphics, hardware and firmware to understand requirements and enhance existing solutions.

  5. Write clean readable code, debug complex problems that span systems.

  6. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas

  7. Understand industry and Meta wide technology trends in computing technology to help assess & develop new technologies within the Reality Labs roadmap.

  8. Partner & collaborate with organizational leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Experience leading consumer-based projects with industry-wide impact.

  2. Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

  3. Experience with cross-functional partnerships, working across functions to drive solutions.

  4. Experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations.

  5. Experience using C or C++ for day-to-day software development.

  6. Experience in developing Embedded engineering solutions within a resource constrained environment.

  7. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

  2. Experience with AOSP, Android internals, Frameworks services, HAL or Native libraries, Android SDK, Android NDK, Android JNI, Android IPC mechanisms, Linux OS development.

  3. Experience in media (video, audio, streaming) and/or graphic stack is a plus.

Industry: Internet

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