Job Description

The Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) Research Team brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers, and engineers to create the future of AR and VR, which together will become as universal and essential as smartphones and personal computers are today. These roles are focused on developing computational imaging and graphics methods that deliver quality and performance improvements within a virtual reality graphics pipeline. In particular we welcome PhD students in computer science, electrical engineering, physics, or similar, with a strong background in prototyping 3D graphics, imaging, or sensing. Our internships are twelve (12) to sixteen (16) weeks long and we have various start dates throughout the year.

Research Engineer Intern, Computational Imaging & Graphics (PhD) Responsibilities

* Develop next-generation head-mounted display prototypes.

* Explore the application of computational imaging methods to virtual reality, emphasizing the development of advanced algorithms, simulations, and hardware capabilities.

* Collaborate with the larger Oculus team and provide creative leadership on computational imaging and graphics technologies.

* Prototype the algorithms on mobile processors.

Minimum Qualifications

* Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in the field of Computer Science, Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.

* Ability in algorithm development for 3D graphics, displays, cameras, or other optical sensing devices, as demonstrated by publications, internship, work experience, coding competitions, class work, or contributions in open source repositories (e.g Github).

* 1+ years experience with solving graphics problems or inverse problems in imaging emphasizing modeling, algorithm development, and hardware prototyping.

* 2+ years experience programming in C or C++.

* Interpersonal skills: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration.

* Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications

* Intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship/co-op.

* Experience with OpenGL/Vulkan, and/or OpenCL/CUDA.

* Experience with machine learning based image-space graphics or computer vision techniques, specifically ones that are real-time or especially performant. (relighting, segmentation, depth estimation, etc).

* Experience in VR related research.

* Experience in developing algorithms on compute constrained platforms such as mobile SoCs.

* Demonstrated experience via an internship, work experience, or widely used contributions to open source projects.

* Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by first-authored publications (e.g., SIGGRAPH/Eurographics, CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, Optics Express, etc.).

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About the Facebook company

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