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.

Facebook is a world leader in the design of virtual and augmented reality systems and is reshaping how people experience entertainment, socialize with others and be productive and collaborative. Our team launched Quest 2 in 2020 - our fastest growing VR headset ever - that has already greatly surpassed the user base of the original Quest. Our platform has a thriving third party development ecosystem with multiple dozens of millions in revenue VR titles. This position presents a unique opportunity to join a team core to the VR experience as we create the foundation for VR to be the next general computing platform. Come work alongside experts in software, hardware and research to create the technology that makes AR/VR pervasive and universal. The potential of VR to connect the world is immense—and we’re just getting started.The System Destinations team is part of the VR Platform organization. Our mission is to deliver the platform building blocks to empower people to feel immersed and socially present in their virtual home. Our vision is to make Oculus Home a Destination, a place where people feel fully present and have access to everything they need in a socially connected general-purpose computing platform.On the System Destinations team, you will work on the core system to render real-time, interactive 3D graphics and process latency-critical events. You will help define system APIs and features that directly impact the way people build content for our platform and how our customers will experience and interact with the content.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership, designing and implementing core features of the platform.
• Play a critical role in helping to set the direction and goals for the team.
• Collaborate with designers, 3D artists, and other engineering teams to incorporate innovative features into the platform.
• Design intuitive, coherent APIs for the platform.
• Effectively explain technical problems with data and analysis and provide detailed feedback and solutions.
• Continuously find opportunities to improve the platform’s performance and reliability.
• Influence the engineering culture in the broader team and advocate for higher product quality and engineering efficiency.
• Provide mentorship to other engineers.
  

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or similar field.
• 8+ years experience in systems graphics & rendering technologies.
• Object-oriented programming and system-level design skills.
• Fluent in writing high performance, maintainable, robust C++ code.
• Understanding of OS, graphics, input, and other subsystems.
• Solid understanding of linear algebra.
• Familiar with common UI Frameworks and their underlying architectures.
• Experience thinking creatively to debug and tackle sophisticated, hard to reproduce problems.
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• Solid understanding of the internals of modern 3D lighting, shadow algorithms, and other PBR rendering techniques.
• Experience using image-based lighting environment maps and direct lighting.
• Understanding of animation systems and basic physics engines.
  

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.