AR Performance Architecture Manager, Facebook Reality Labs

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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 ARVR focuses on delivering Facebook's vision through Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). The compute performance and power efficiency requirements of Virtual and Augmented Reality require custom silicon. The Facebook Silicon team is driving the state of the art forward with breakthrough work in computer vision, machine learning, mixed reality, graphics, displays, sensors, and new ways to map the human body. Our chips will enable AR & VR devices where our real and virtual world will mix and match throughout the day. We believe the only way to achieve our goals is to look at the entire stack, from transistors, through architecture to firmware, and algorithms.As an AR Performance Architecture Manager, part of the Facebook Reality Labs AR SoC team, the candidate will lead the performance modeling and verification teams. The ideal candidate for this role will have an excellent grasp on SoC micro-architecture, experience in optimizing PPA for thermally constrained devices, familiarity with power and performance measurement tools and analyzers, experience working with emulation/FPGA and software modeling platforms, test benches, end to end use-case performance verification and instrumentation to quantify performance and power. Successful candidates are motivated self-starters who are comfortable operating in a cross-functional environment, and have a hands-on approach to problem-solving.

Responsibilities
  • Mentor and grow a team of performance modeling and performance verification engineers.
  • Drive pre-silicon performance modeling, verification and correlation.
  • Lead post-silicon performance measurement and analysis.
  • Drive development of tools, methodologies and automation flows to enable the performance team to scale across multiple SoCs.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to enable execution of end to end use cases in pre-silicon, verify performance KPIs and execute post silicon use case performance analysis.
  • Work across disciplines, collaborate with vendors, brainstorm big ideas, build new methodologies, juggle/coordinate multiple initiatives.
Minimum Qualification
  • 10+ years experience in SoC performance architecture.
  • Experience with growing and leading teams of performance architects.
  • Understanding of SoC Architecture, NoCs, memory sub-system, Quality of Service (QoS), and heterogeneous compute principles.
  • Experience with SoC/IP/System performance modeling, verification and correlation.
  • Understanding of AMBA protocol signals.
  • Understanding of basic power concepts and trade-offs.
  • MSEE/CS or equivalent experience.
  • Experience collaborating and communicating effectively in a team environment.
Preferred Qualification
  • Experience with Zebu emulation platforms.
  • Experience with bare-metal programming, micro-benchmarking, performance instrumentation, Simpoints, etc.
  • Experience with performance profilers.
  • Experience with RTL design verification, Post-silicon bring-up and validation.
  • Experience with implementing and debugging low level device drivers.
  • Familiarity with software profiling and optimization using tools like perf, VTune, DS5-Streamline, etc.
  • Familiarity with hardware/software co-design.
  • SystemC/TLM2 programming experience.
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