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.

At Meta Reality Labs, our goal is to explore, innovate and design novel interfaces and hardware subsystems for the next generation of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences.We are currently seeking an innovative and self-motivated Computer Vision Research Engineer with expertise in real-time computer vision, hardware, sensor fusion, signal-processing or related fields to join our team.In this role, you will help build concept devices and prototypes, software pipelines, real-time image processing algorithms, and computer vision models that infer human actions in real-time interactive systems, using data from wearable cameras and other sensors.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop novel computer vision and machine learning algorithms in areas such as: real-time gesture recognition, reconstruction, understanding, segmentation, and depth sensing.
• Bring up, test, and validate new optical sensing and tracking systems to advance AR/VR interaction technologies for processing user input and/or object recognitions.
• Build and improve data pipelines with an emphasis on supporting a multitude of sensor technologies.
• Collaborate with internal cross-functional engineers and researchers for data collection, data processing and analysis.
• Participate in cutting edge research in computer vision and hardware.
  

Minimum Qualification

• BSc degree in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related technical field.
• 6+ years of experience building, testing and deploying image-based processing algorithms in real-time.
• 6+ years of computer vision experience that provides familiarity with fundamental concepts such as image formation and camera calibration.
• 3+ years of experience working on prototype or state-of-the-art hardware systems.
• 3+ years of experience developing in C++ and/or Python.
  

Preferred Qualification

• MSc or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Computer Engineering or related technical field.
• 4+ years of industry experience.
• Experience with sensor systems and joint hardware/algorithm design, in particular with camera hardware.
• 3+ years of experience in bringing up, testing, and validating optical sensing and tracking systems, e.g., time of flight, depth sensors, RGB or Monochrome camera systems.
• Experience in electronics and optics.
  

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.