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.The Spark AR team builds the Augmented Reality (AR) platform enabling experiences across Facebook’s family of applications and current and future hardware. Augmented Reality’s potential to interact with the world is tremendous — and we’re just getting started. Spark AR is driving the state-of-the-art in Augmented Reality forward with breakthrough work in building an AR platform at scale with hundreds of millions of users. We are seeking a Manager of Software Engineering to lead Spark AR’s Platform Capabilities team. The team enables all the machine perception platform Capabilities (both People-facing and World-facing) available on Spark AR. This role involves a close collaboration with our internal and external ML development teams, infrastructure teams as well as our various production apps such as Instagram. This role is ideal for someone passionate about AR/VR, system design and computer vision.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support the engineering teams to build the best-in-class cross-platform AR capabilities on top of native AR mobile frameworks (ARKit, ARCore, internal FB).
- Provide technical leadership in design, implementation, integrations and deployment of machine perception platform capabilities on Spark AR.
- Be an actor/driving force in aligning on requirements working closely with our product team and cross-functional partners.
- Set clear expectations and create a positive work environment based on accountability, in collaboration with the engineering and management teams.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with global hardware and software engineering teams such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Portal.
- Establish a solid project framework and development processes.
- Drive an excellent customer experience, continually raising the bar on functionality, usability, and simplicity.
- Provide guidance to both the direct team members and cross-functional project peers.
- Champion engineering and operations, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement.
- Work on strategy and help set direction while staying on top of the day-to-day software development.
- 5+ years of experience in managing engineering teams including hiring/termination and performance management.
- 3+ years of work experience architecting, developing, and launching performance sensitive client-side products (mobile, Desktop) on large code bases that span platforms and tools.
- 3+ years of technical experience with C/C++.
- 2+ years of experience integrating ML & CV models into mobile applications.
- Proven track record of building and supporting cross-functional teams.
- Experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance.
- Experience communicating insights and ideas across the organization.
- Hands-on experience managing teams building on top of ARKit, ARCore.
- Experience implementing or integrating Computer Vision algorithms at production scale.
- Experience developing or modifying camera pipeline on mobile platform.
- Experience with Android and/or iOS.
- Experience working on VR, AR and/or MR.
- Experience managing and growing other managers.