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 Reality Labs Research (FRL-R) brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers, and engineers with the shared goal of developing AR and VR across the spectrum. The charter of the Graphics Research group within FRL-R is to make exceptional consumer virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences targeting five to ten years out.We are currently seeking talented Research Scientists to help develop forward looking graphics pipelines for AR and VR, and solve the next generation of challenges in the visual computing space. The focus of this role is on computer graphics with the primary responsibility being the efficient synthesis of high quality images, including leveraging and developing state of the art techniques. This full-time position requires a background in computer science, computer engineering, or similar areas; and a strong background in graphics, math, and programming.

Responsibilities

• Initiate and lead research projects in graphics with a focus on determining the impact on perceived image quality from color, luminance, aliasing, sampling and reconstruction for novel displays and/or optical systems
• Act as an amplifier for the rest of the graphics research team to maximize perceived image quality and performance through the lens of human perception and visual processing
• Collaborate with other researchers and engineers to influence the design and optimization of future graphics pipelines/hardware by back-propagating the learnings from perception and pixel quality metrics
• Interact cross-functionally with peer teams, like hardware, perceptual science, optics, and displays
  

Minimum Qualification

• Advanced degree in the field of computer graphics, computer vision, computational photography, image processing, or similar domains
• 3+ years of experience with real-time and/or offline computer graphics
• 3+ years of experience with advanced image synthesis, including rasterization, ray tracing, sampling, physically based shading, level of detail and image processing
• 3+ years of experience in computational photography, color perception, image quality metrics, and/or display characteristics
• 3+ years of experience with C++
• 2+ publications at top computer graphics conferences and/or journals
• Demonstrated experience dealing with ambiguity, and experience working with cross-functional teams
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• PhD in the field of computer graphics, computer vision, computational photography, image processing, or similar domains
• Deep understanding of color spaces, dynamic range and tone-mapping, aliasing, sampling and reconstruction, sub-pixel rendering, demosaicing, and image filtering
• Experience with graphics and GPU APIs like DirectX, Vulkan, Metal and/or CUDA
• Experience with GPU hardware architecture, preferably having influenced silicon design along feature and/or performance axes
• Track record of achieving results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, HPG, EGSR, etc.
  

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.