Reality Labs Research (RL-R) brings together a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers to create the future of augmented and virtual reality. As a software engineer on the Live Telepresence team, you will enable the next generation of cutting-edge headsets that support the research behind photorealistic Codec Avatars, enabling people to interact with each other across distances in a way that is indistinguishable from in-person interactions. Our team cultivates an honest and considerate environment where self-motivated individuals thrive. We encourage a strong sense of ownership and embrace the ambiguity that comes with working on the frontiers of research.

Codec Avatars Software Engineer Responsibilities

• Partner across teams in Reality Labs and Reality Labs Research


• Enable the latest sensors on the newest headsets


• Build tools, platforms, infrastructure and documentation that enable more efficient and effective research


• Write clean readable code, debug complex problems that span systems, understand priorities and fulfill project needs efficiently


• Collaborate in a diverse team environment across multiple scientific and engineering disciplines, making the architectural tradeoffs required to rapidly deliver software solutions


• Learn constantly, build with inclusion as a core value, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of AR/VR problem solving


• Build a community of researchers and developers by sharing software engineering best practices, tips and techniques


• Develop robust processes for testing changes to ensure safe deployment in live systems


• Collaborate with our user studies team to understand common failure cases, ascertain root causes, and improve the data research platform experience

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.


• 6+ years of C++ experience, including Modern C++ features and techniques


• 4+ years of experience with the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) including native C/C++ development, services, and build system


• Experience writing system level infrastructure, libraries, and applications


• Experience with firmware development for resource constrained systems running an RTOS


• Experience with sensor interfacing in time synchronized, soft real-time systems


• Experience with software development practices such as source control, code reviews, unit testing, debugging and profiling


• Experience with Linux and command line utilities


• Proven collaborator with effective communication skills across teams of varying knowledge of components


• Proven track record of shipping software


• Experience working independently and in highly dynamic environments


• Experience developing performant software and systems


• Experience developing APIs, SDKs and developer tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Linux kernel development


• Experience developing and managing large scale-distributed systems


• Experience with Networking


• Experience with cameras and optical systems, lighting systems, and audio systems


• Experience with software development and debugging on Windows and Linux


• Experience with real-time communication and inter-process communication


• Experience developing software for Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, or Robotics applications


• Experience developing AR/VR applications


• Experience with game engines like Unity


• Experience building software for research related problems

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