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 is developing fundamental technologies for future virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) systems. The Sensors and Systems Research (SSR) team gathers world-class expertise and talents in sensors, optics, silicon, compute, algorithm, and system architecture. We have a long term vision and an ambitious research roadmap. We have a diverse, dynamic and collaborative culture. We are looking for a research manager that will partner with our project leads and contribute to the success of our programs across the organization. Come to work alongside technology visionaries and research scientists to solve the most challenging problems for the next generation computing platform.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating and supporting research leads on long term projects. Partnering with research leads to set strategy, direction, and goals. Communicating and putting processes in place to execute our vision and roadmap.
• Keeping partners and stakeholders informed and involved. Building the appropriate communication channels both within and outside the team. Helping to articulate the research and technical merits and impacts to cross functional partners.
• Keeping the leads and the team unblocked and effective. Ensuring the members of their team are able to work at their highest potential and able to play to their strengths. Helping resolving conflicts to allow the team to move forward.
• Contributing and negotiating external collaboration agreements, SOWs and NRE discussions. Managing project milestones, deliverables, and payments.
• Promoting and building external partner relationships, maintaining foundry supports, helping to form new industry and research consortium alliances.
  

Minimum Qualification

• PhD in EE, CS and related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on sensor technology development and productization experience, including working with sensor vendors and foundries.
• 3+ years combined technical program management and business strategic planning experience.
  

Preferred Qualification

• Experience in an industry research institute.
  

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.