AR Platform Architect Lead at Meta in Redmond, Washington

Job Description:

As a AR Platform Architect Lead at Meta Reality Labs, you will lead architecture on upcoming AR platforms, help drive the overall strategy & roadmap, and be a part of the teams designing, building, and testing prototypes for future consumer AR experiences. We want people who: work well in teams, can brainstorm big ideas, work in new technology areas, thrive in ambiguity, able to map tradespaces, able to drive a concept into a prototype, and can envision how a prototype could transition into a high-volume consumer product.The Reality Labs AR Platform Architect Lead will lead the definition and convergence of complex and novel sub-system and platform architectures aimed at pushing beyond the state-of-the-art consumer AR systems. These can span new sensing systems, display/optics systems, input devices, and full AR headsets. The role requires expert technical communication with cross-functional teams across ID, hardware engineering, partnerships, supply chain and core technology groups to drive incubation of new technologies from proof of concept through integration into products for mass production. This role requires excellent technical understanding of consumer electronics and AR reality systems across the stack.Starting with a broad engineering background in electrical, mechanical, optics, silicon, or related fields, we're looking for a unique system designer or architect. The ideal candidate would have strong systems skills, previous roles driving architecture convergence on complex consumer electronics products, and experience with SoC evaluation, optical systems, sensors, CV algorithms, software, and be able to work collaboratively with experts in different fields to make architectural tradeoffs.

AR Platform Architect Lead Responsibilities:

• Technical delivery on hardest architectural problems in early phase concept development (ensuring translation of marketing requirements to platform and product)


• Support the analysis of proposed system architecture against the defined requirements to ensure power, latency, thermals and required compute & communication bandwidth align with user experience and target ID


• Engage with technology project leads, and various component SMEs in creating the overall system architecture and platform as the starting point for product execution Communicate technology and platform strategy effectively to both internal and external stakeholders


• Guide management on long term technology investments


• Create proof of concepts


• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on blank-slate and early-phase prototyping and product exploration, mapping it to strategic and platform questions which need to be resolved


• Drive development of system requirements to create new augmented reality experiences, and help advance technology and research roadmaps


• Travel up to 15% time domestically and internationally

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of product experience in electrical or mechanical engineering


• Experience working with one or more of these technologies: silicon, sensors, thermal systems


• Communication experience working with Product Development engineers, Product Managers and other hardware/software cross functional teams


• Experience working with partnerships teams and external partners at both a supply base and product level

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, other related technical field or equivalent experience


• Experience modeling system power, and using those models to inform trade-offs against key architectural decisions (e.g. battery life, thermals, silicon roadmaps, power load profiles)


• Understanding of memory subsystems including mass storage and filesystem as well as volatile memory and memory management and their impacts on overall system performance


• Experience with Virtual/Augmented reality or systems aimed at capturing/processing/delivering audio visual, IMU or other positional data streams


• Experience creating system models to analyze system compute, latency and communication interface bandwidths across multiple subsystems within a heterogeneous compute environment in order to define the system architecture to meet the overall goals of the product definition


• Experience working with partnerships teams and external partners at both a supply base and product level


• Experience with influencing silicon vendors roadmaps and SOC features sets with emphasis on using advanced IP in the realms of Machine Learning and Wireless technologies


• General Machine learning (DNN, CNN, RNN, GenAI LLM)

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.



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