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.

This engineer role will be a part of an advanced optical film development team. In this role, you will work with a highly collaborative team to scale advanced liquid crystal films that unlock new architectures for AR/VR products.

Responsibilities

• Develop process and new materials for advancing liquid crystal optical films
• Owner of engineering specifications and requirements to ensure quality parts in high volume manufacturing
• Coordinate with external vendors to deliver advanced optical films for new product introductions
• Perform root cause analysis and recommend corrective actions
• Ability and willingness to travel internationally up to 25%
  

Minimum Qualification

• MS in relevant engineering discipline with 1+ year of relevant lab experience in academia or industry or equivalent work experience
• Experience in translating complex ideas into digestible messages
• Experience in roll-to-roll film process, precision alignment and patterning processes and/or liquid crystal and photo-alignment materials
• Experience in different methods of how polarizing and diffraction elements are made
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• MS Degree in Engineering with 3+ years of industry work experience or equivalent work experience
• Experience with AR/VR optics and display optics (LCD and OLED)
• Experience building polarization and diffraction films using polarization exposure, electron beam patterning or other patterning methods
• Experience in polarization and diffraction
• Experience in polarization-based metrology tools
  

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.