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 is a world leader in the design of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) systems. Come work alongside technology visionaries and research scientists to create the technology that makes VR and AR pervasive and universal. The Cameras & Sensors (C&S) team gathers world class expertise and talent in photographic and machine vision cameras, imaging sensors, and depth, inertial, and bio sensing systems, and owns the development and validation for all these sensing systems across the whole AR, VR & Portal product portfolios.We are looking for an Image Sensor Validation Lead that will partner with a team of professionals covering the complete CMOS image sensor lifecycle in human perception and machine perception imaging. This individual will lead the validation requirements definition, and validate leading edge image sensors into our camera modules. Their work scope will span OTS image sensors, semi-custom sensors, fully custom sensors, and advanced sensor technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical efforts to validate the OTS and innovative image sensors
• Drive and develop methodologies for internally and externally validating systems, including hardware simulations (FPGA, emulation) and sensor evaluation hardware
• Interact with sensor vendors to understand how they are meeting requirements, and validate their implementations
• Prototyping innovative concept to define the sensor new features
• Collaborate with image sensor design teams, computer vision scientists, module/optical experts and system architects to develop next generation sensor technologies
  

Minimum Qualification

• BS in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 7+ years of experience in image sensor validation, review and author formal validation plan and report
• Proficiency with data collection and analysis tools, including C/C++, Python, MATLAB, and other scripting languages
• Experience with sensor electrical and functional validation tools, including interface (I2C/I3C/C-PHY/D-PHY MIPI interfaces) and power supply
• Experience on FPGA integration and bring up
  

Preferred Qualification

• Familiar with digital image processing, image quality analysis, imaging algorithms
• In-depth experience with FPGA platforms: Xilinx FPGA boards, debug, performance and throughput tuning
• Understanding of Machine learning models and FPGA implementation of the models for different tracking applications
• Experience in silicon design (Verilog, firmware)
  

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