Job Description

Meta builds products that make it easier for people to connect with the ones they love most. Meta Reality Labs focuses on delivering this vision through Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). The Meta Reality Labs Research team drives the state-of-the-art of AR and VR forward with breakthrough work in machine learning, displays, sensors, graphics, and new ways to map the human body. As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) in Meta RLR, you'll be a critical member of a multi-disciplinary team building prototypes to advance these research efforts. As a TPM for the Graphics Research team, your focus will be exploring and delivering breakthrough solutions for the graphics pipeline. You will be part of an innovative team creating prototype hardware + software for a complex graphics system including the tailored system designs to support User Studies. This will require great systems design skills, excellent collaboration with partners, and a focus on shaping user studies to explore optimal solutions. Ideal team members are adaptable and resilient, eager to attack unfamiliar problems with curiosity and tenacity, and able to use a light touch to find ways to help the team be more efficient.

Technical Program Manager, Research Graphics Responsibilities:

• Own program management strategy and execution for a complex graphics system covering hardware and software prototypes.
• Manage the design, development, and delivery of prototype systems that include deliverables focused on electrical engineering, software development, and mechanical design.
• Work with a cross-functional team of Researchers, hardware and software engineers, Human Perception, and TPMs to set clear deliverables milestones, create integration plans, and identify risks with mitigation plans to deliver a next generation graphics solution.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across the Graphics Research team and cross-functional leadership.
• Effectively communicate program goals and status to key cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.
• Develop schedules, identify critical paths and bottlenecks and maintain execution throughout the duration of programs.
• Work cross-functionally to develop best practices and technology development processes in a quickly-changing and dynamic environment to ensure on time delivery.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in the design and development of consumer, industrial, or research electronics.
• 5+ years of program management experience.
• Interest for being a great communicator. Versatility in drafting, presenting, and facilitating to all levels of the organization technical and non-technical content.
• Project management, leadership, dependency management, and cross-group collaboration experience across more than one geographic location.
• Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers, hardware engineers.
• Early prototyping experience on new technologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of computer graphics systems.
• Strong understanding for prototyping and validation with FPGAs and Emulators.
• Experience driving User Research studies for quantifiable outcomes.
• Experience tech transferring from a research team to product.
  
  

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