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 Research) brings together a world-class team of researchers and engineers to create the future of augmented and virtual reality, which together will become as universal and essential as smartphones and personal computers are today. And just as personal computers have done over the past 45 years, AR and VR will ultimately change everything about how we work, play, and connect.
We are developing all the technologies needed to enable breakthrough AR glasses and VR headsets, including optics and displays, computer vision, audio, graphics, brain-computer interfaces, haptic interaction, eye/hand/face/body tracking, perception science, and true telepresence. Some of those will advance much faster than others, but they all need to happen to enable AR and VR that are so compelling that they become an integral part of our lives.
The audio team within FRL Research is looking for an experienced, innovative applied research science manager with a specialty in audio processing to join our growing team. You will be leading and directing applied research in technologies that improve listener’s hearing abilities under challenging listening conditions, with a team of dedicated researchers, developers, and engineers. You will operate at the intersection of acoustics, hearing and signal processing algorithms with hardware and software co-design.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and nurture a team of applied researchers by supporting their career growth, well-being, and productivity.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across scientific and engineering disciplines and ensure the team is aligned on a well-defined research direction and goals.
- Transform technology requirements to research goals for discrete technologies, including productization, maturation, optimization, implementation under limited compute requirements.
- Deliver research goals against the team’s roadmap, ensure execution against the goals and timelines.
- Communicate strategy, and project objectives with the team.
- Collaborate with and support other research scientists and engineers within the audio team and the larger FRL Research organization.
- Contribute to research collaborations with external academic groups to advance our research goals.
- Leadership experience driving high risk, high reward projects, including managing a larger team.
- M.S. or Ph.D. in a scientific or engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience leading teams in scientific/engineering product development.
- Proven track record of managing research and technology transfer in an industrial setting.
- PhD in Experimental Psychology, Audio, Acoustics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Perception or a related field.
- Experience with audio signal processing applied to speech enhancement.
- Experience with auditory perception, hearing sciences, machine learning, or research in microphone-array audio capture.
- Proven track record of achieving significant results and innovation as demonstrated by first-authored publications and/or patents.
- Demonstrated leadership experience in developing hardware and software technologies into research or consumer products in time bound and multi-partner initiatives.