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.

As a Firmware Design Verification Engineer within Facebook Reality Labs, you will play a critical role in bringing AR to our customers. You will be embedded with the AR/VR Display & Optics team working with a cross-disciplinary engineering team (electrical, mechanical, optical). This position will have the opportunity to influence product design, own a substantial aspect of design verification engineering, and design test protocols with line-of-sight to mass production. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can navigate through the development of test architecture all the way through detailed execution. They are detail-orientated with robust communication skills and comfortable working in a highly visible and highly hands-on problem-solving environment.

The candidate will also have a strong ability to communicate to all levels of an organization – from management to technical engineers. You will collaborate with a large breadth of cross-functional disciplines to understand emerging designs and technologies. If you're a C and C++ expert with deep knowledge of computer architecture, an understanding for embedded electronics, and an aptitude for optimization, you'll thrive in our collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Work with the hardware engineering and technology teams to understand product design requirements and own definition of verification requirements and development of develop test systems to evaluate functional performance
• Strengthen the hardware abstraction team in their efforts to provide an API to researchers, experience developers and design validation teams
• Maintain and improve the existing test infrastructure as well as to help grow and develop new functionality
• Define and document API functions integrate networking functionality
• Collaborate with various stakeholders across teams and disciplines to gather requirements and provide targeted solutions
• Drive real-time testing efforts
  

Minimum Qualification

• BS or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics or a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience with Firmware verification with focus on hardware interactions
• 3+ years experience with one or more level scripting languages such as Python
• Experience with embedded systems’ architecture and components
  

Preferred Qualification

• Experience with driver verification and interactions higher in the stack
• Experience with FPGA systems
• Experience with C/C++ coding
• Experience with hardware abstraction methods
• Experience with testing of consumer electronics hardware
• Experience with real-time systems, including real-time testing applications, such as Hardware-in-the-loop
• Experience with test automation and Instrument communication (Oscilloscopes, cameras etc.)
• Experience with performance optimization of algorithm
  

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.