Hardware Systems Architect
Company: Oculus
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: November 22, 2021
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Job Description:
As a Hardware System Architect at Facebook Reality Labs, you
will lead architecture on upcoming AR/VR/Wearables products, help
drive the overall strategy & roadmap, and be a part of the teams
designing, building, and testing prototypes for future consumer
AR/VR/Wearables reality 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
Hardware System Architect will lead the definition and convergence
of complex and novel sub-system and product architectures aimed at
pushing beyond the state-of-the-art consumer AR/VR/Wearable
systems. These can span new sensing systems, display/optics
systems, input devices, and full VR 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/VR/Wearable 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.
Lead product architecture for roadmap products, communicate
trade-offs, program concerns and technical direction
Drive the technical scoping and development of new technologies to
deliver generation defining user experiences for future products on
the roadmap
Conduct detailed analysis and trade-off studies for complex
systems
Engage with technology project leads, and various component SMEs in
creating the overall system architecture and platform as the
starting point for product execution
Deliver engineering solutions hardest architectural problems in
early phase concept development (ensuring translation of marketing
requirements to product)
Communicate technology and product strategy effectively to both
internal and external stakeholders
Guide management & partner teams on long term technology
investments
Create proof-of-concept physical prototypes
Collaborate with cross-functional teams on blank-slate and
early-phase prototyping and product exploration, mapping it to
strategic and product questions which need to be resolved
Create hardware system metrics, standards and tools
Drive development of system requirements to create new
augmented/virtual reality experiences, and help advance technology
and research roadmaps
Travel up to 15% time domestically and internationally
10+ years of product experience in electrical, mechanical or
optical engineering
Experience with architecture and systems engineering across
electrical, firmware, mechanical, audio and optical systems
Experience integrating and delivering one or more of these
technologies: displays, optics, silicon, sensors, thermal
systems
Experience in rapid prototyping and creating proof of concept
models to share ideas and improve architectural decisions
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
MS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer
Engineering other related technical field or equivalent
experience
Experience in firmware development, programming, computer vision,
OS, game development, and complex sensing systems
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
Working knowledge across the following areas with experience in at
least one:
Health: Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, Sp02, Pedometer, EMG
Imaging: interfaces, optical, sensors, modules, ISP and algorithm
fundamentals, CV/ML
Audio: interfaces, sound file recording and reproduction (channel
based, HOA etc.), multi mic topologies, beam forming, blind source
separation, natural language processing
Communications: network impacts on latency, throughput and Jitter,
VoIP, video communications
General Machine learning (DNN, CNN, RNN)
Experience with influencing silicon vendors roadmaps and SOC
features sets with emphasis on using advanced IP in the realms of
Machine Learning, Graphics and Imaging
Experience in additional fields such as programming, computer
vision, OS, game development
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community
and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and
services, we're building a different kind of company that connects
billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what
matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together.
Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business
expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our
global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and
working together to empower people around the world to build
community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help
people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.
Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color,
national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related
medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity,
gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age,
status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a
disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories,
consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.Facebook is
committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates
with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any
assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us
know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.
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