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.

As a Research Engineer at Facebook Reality Labs Research, you will work closely with our Research Team and bring to life an integrated system of interaction experiences that will define the future of how people interact in AR. You will join a multi-disciplinary team experimenting with bold ideas in areas of human-computer interaction, including interaction techniques, predictive modeling, adaptive user interfaces, user input disambiguation, sensors and hardware prototyping, eye tracking, haptics, audio, and perceptual psychology. If you have a passion for creating interactive systems and experiences and a love for solving novel problems from first principles, this is an opportunity to join a team focused on defining and building the next generation of VR and AR technology.You’ll be responsible for researching, designing, and building prototypes that transfer research projects into interactive experiences. In our collaborative environment, you’ll partner with researchers, designers, and engineers to create the technology that makes AR pervasive and universal. You’ll tackle the challenge of developing novel approaches to address complex user interactions, modeling interaction intent, designing interfaces for system uncertainty disambiguation, and/or personalizing the system based on user actions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and designers across disciplines to concept, build, and test novel input and interfaces for AR/VR
• Clearly articulate prototyping decisions to a vast set of internal stakeholders and contribute to strategic decisions with engineering and research teams
• Support the realization of research outcomes into code and experiences through reusable tools, extensible plug-ins, and clear readable code
• Learn constantly, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of inventing the AR/VR interface of the future
  

Minimum Qualification

• Masters in the field of human-computer interaction, computer science, brain-computer interfaces, robotics, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in development of real-time interactive solutions with humans in the loop
• 3+ years of experience programming with C++, C# and/or Python
• 3+ years of experience creating real-time signal processing, sensor fusion, and/or machine learning solutions using continuous data streams from people (eye tracking, hand and/or body tracking, EMG, EEG, or similar)
• Proven track record of achieving research results and innovation as demonstrated by first-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals/conferences and/or patents
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• PhD in the field of human-computer interaction, computer science, brain-computer interfaces, robotics, or related field
• 3+ years experience working with Unity, including working with 3D assets and external tools (DLLs), developing plug-ins, and programming with C++, C# and/or Python
• Demonstrated experience designing AR/VR interactions through projects and demonstrations
  

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