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 design novel interfaces and hardware subsystems for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. We are looking for a skilled and motivated design technologist to join our team, whose mission is to unleash human potential by erasing the bottlenecks between user intent and action. We are specifically looking for a candidate with experience in interactive prototyping to work with a team of researchers to explore the potential of neural interfaces, which has grown out of the acquisition of CTRL-labs. 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

• Create prototypes which explore neuromotor interactions in a variety of environments and situations
• Collaborate with neuroscientists and machine learning experts to develop and demonstrate new neuromotor control capabilities
• Collaborate with user researchers to iterate on prototypes and evaluate the performance of promising interactions
  

Minimum Qualification

• 5+ years of C#, JavaScript or C++ experience on prototyping, game development, or equivalent real-time interactive development
• 3+ years experience with Unity, Unreal, JavaScript/3JS/WebGL or equivalent
• Portfolio featuring examples of interactive prototype work
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• One or more of the following:
• Experience building prototypes for VR and AR devices
• Experience with gestural or wearable computing interfaces
• Experience prototyping with novel hardware, sensors, or devices
• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods for user research
• Familiarity with real-time signal processing (filtering, debouncing, etc.) and machine learning techniques
  

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.