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 Mechanical Engineering Lead Architect to join our team, whose mission is to work with a broad range of multidisciplinary research to advance the state-of-the-art of AR/VR experiences. We are specifically looking for a candidate with experience architecting mechanical systems while considering a broad range of hardware requirements including materials, manufacturability, form factor, ergonomics, sensor/camera/display integration, and reliability performance. The candidate should be able to explore novel ideas and assess concept feasibility through the use of analytical modeling and fast iterative prototyping while considering transition to high volume production. The candidate will work with a team of researchers and engineers who are focused on haptics, sensor fusion, novel materials, and AR/VR-specific human-computer-interface paradigms. 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 mechanical architecture development for wearable interaction hardware in a highly cross-functional team environment
• Drive technology roadmaps with cross-functional teams
• Incubate new technologies into research prototypes
• Apply rigorous engineering fundamentals to model, build, test, and refine prototypes
• Mentor and provide guidance to mechanical engineering team
  

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or comparable experience
• 7+ years of experience working on complex ME designs, leading and organizing a highly cross functional team
• Experience leading multiple engineering efforts across R&D programs in both strategy and execution
• Experience with 3D design modeling (NX, SolidWorks, CREO)
• Experience growing the engineering team, raising the skill level of the team through their technical leadership
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• Familiarity with AR/VR or wearable technologies
• Experience in one of more of the following areas: sensor integration, stretchable electronics, micro-electronics assembly
• Experience with a wide variety of manufacturing processes such as, injection molding, insert/overmolding, casting, SMT, machining, vapor deposition, and micro/nano-molding
• Experience with a wide variety of materials such as elastomers, thin film composites, or soft goods
  

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