Job Description

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.

At Facebook Reality Labs, FRL, our goal is to explore, innovate and design novel interfaces and hardware subsystems for the next generation of augmented, virtual, and mixed-reality experiences. We are looking for a skilled and motivated Mechanical Engineer to join our team, whose mission is to work with a broad range of multidisciplinary research to advance the state of the art for wearable interaction devices. We are specifically looking for a candidate with Consumer Electronics fundamentals, integration of electronics into soft and flexible systems, and who can work with a team of researchers who are working in functional garments and textiles, haptic rendering techniques, psychophysics, and AR/VR specific human-computer-interaction paradigms. More broadly, the chosen candidate will work with a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers, designers, and engineers, and will have access to cutting edge technology, resources, and testing facilities.

Responsibilities

• Frame, scope, plan, and execute multidisciplinary research for wearable interaction devices for AR/VR aligned with broader research strategy
• Work with researchers, designers, engineers, and other roles, to drive softgoods solutions for wearable AR/VR interaction devices
• Connect and drive collaborations with vendors, academic, and industry labs to advance research in relevant areas
• Thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous, and cross-disciplinary environment
  

Minimum Qualification

• BS or higher in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience in a mechanical engineering role
• 4+ years of experience in the mechanical engineering of mass-produced consumer electronics
• 4+ years of experience in 3D modeling in NX, SolidWorks, or Creo
• Experience owning scope/schedule/quality/cost for parts/subsystems through every stage of the product development process and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to deliver high precision assemblies with high cosmetic requirements
• Experience collaborating closely with EE, DVE, DFX, Safety, HFE to optimize design for PCBAs
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• Experience driving domestic and Asia-based vendors remotely and in-person, including a variety of engineering engagement models (CM, JDM and ODM)
• Experience in mechanical fundamentals, tolerance analysis, Root Cause Analysis, DOEs, and DFSS
• Experience designing for a variety of manufacturing processes such as stacked die cut assemblies, compression molding, and injection molding, various adhesives
• Experience applying material science understanding to designing for manufacturing and reliability
• 2+ years of experience working with technical soft goods and/or wearable electronics
  

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