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 explore, innovate and design novel interfaces and hardware subsystems for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. We are looking for a Lead Fabrication Research Engineer with passion for technology and leadership to join our team, whose mission is to deliver beyond state-of-the-art Waveguide Technologies for consumer near to eye displays at our research and development facilities. We are specifically looking for a candidate with experience leading novel optical device nanofabrication projects in a clean room environment. In this role, you will collaborate with a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of research scientists, process engineers and technicians to develop future generation augmented reality display. You will be empowered to explore future technology roadmap and translate that into prototyping. More specifically you will lead the research and development of fabrication processes and tools to enable delivery of next generation optical concepts and prototypes targeting display systems leveraging nanostructured optics and active optical technologies. You will receive full support from the management and leadership team to grow your technical and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with Technical Program Managers, leadership team and other research scientists & engineers to devise and execute on the program priorities.
• Enable identification and exploration of novel fabrication processes, technologies & tools needed to enable future generation display.
• Execute on both end to end integration and module research & development within the fab for fast prototyping and testing.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Productization and Process Engineering teams to ensure fab operational efficiency.
  

Minimum Qualification

• A PhD degree in the field of Engineering, Optical Sciences, Physics, or equivalent work experience.
• 1+ year of experience leading a sector within an R&D or production fab for advanced node semiconductor or optical device fabrication.
• 1+ years experience with optical device characterization techniques.
  

Preferred Qualification

• 2+ years of experience in novel optical device fabrication including AR display, diffractive waveguides, silicon-photonics, metastructures, etc.
• 2+ years of experience with standard nanofabrication technologies including lithography, etch, deposition, cleans, metrology, and materials.
• 1+ years experience in novel optical device design including diffractive waveguides, silicon-photonics, metastructures, 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.