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 virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. We are looking for a skilled and motivated Electrical Engineering Lead Architect to join our Electrical Engineering team, whose mission is to design, build, and test prototype electrical systems for future consumer VR and AR experiences. We are specifically looking for a candidate with a broad set of experiences, including embedded design, analog/mixed signal design, RF, or multimodal biometric sensing. The systems we work with could have ASICs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, FPGAs from simple to large, displays, audio, inertial sensors, haptic interfaces, camera sensors, and high speed I/O. You will work cross-functionally with teams that will dynamically change depending on the problem and potentially include mechanical, optical, firmware, software, and research experts. We want people who work well in teams, can brainstorm big ideas, work in new technology areas, are able to drive a concept into a design, and tolerate a high degree of ambiguity. Your primary role will be split between supporting a small team of EE’s and providing technical leadership on one of many prototyping efforts. You should be able to create a board definition and implement with electrical schematic and layout, bring-up, troubleshoot, and ready these devices for small-batch research prototyping efforts. More broadly, the chosen candidate will work with a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers and will have access to cutting edge technology, resources, and testing facilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead, architect, and design Electrical Engineering projects in a cross-functional hardware team
• Collaborating in a team environment across engineering disciplines while managing a wide variety of stakeholders and leading process definition
• Incubating new technologies into research prototypes
• Designing schematics, completing board layouts, assembling, testing, debugging, and integrating designs into electro-mechanical systems using industry-standard design packages such as Altium or Cadence and lab equipment
  

Minimum Qualification

• 7+ years of experience along with a BS in Digital System Design/Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience with use of oscilloscopes, high speed digital test equipment, logic analyzers, and function generators
• Experience with schematic and board design using Cadence OrCAD, Altium or equivalent
• Experience working independently, managing priorities, and demonstrates aptitude for creative problem solving
• Experience in design of system architectures encompassing compute, EE, sensors, calibration, and firmware from initial conception through prototyping and beyond
  

Preferred Qualification

• Experience with VR/AR systems or wearable technologies
• Experience with one or more of the following: design of high speed differential circuits, Verilog/FPGAs, microcontrollers, microprocessors, firmware, or programmable logic based development
• Proven record leading cross-functional teams to execute product development on schedule
• Strong organization and documentation skills are key in order to share, refine, and iterate designs in the future
  

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.