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. The Surreal research group at FRL Research is seeking exceptional Technical Program Managers to solve the next generation of research challenges on the path to building future machine perception enabled technologies. This role focuses on formulating a new generation of end-to-end real-time 3D scene understanding systems working across novel mobile sensor design, sensor fusion, state estimation, computer vision, large-scale reconstruction and localization, as well as large-scale online inference and optimization. You will define program requirements, deliverables, schedule and track progress, coordinate collaborations with other internal teams as well as manage partner and vendor relationships. To be successful, you will be eliminating barriers to your team's success, clearly communicating results to all stakeholders and ensuring the big picture stays in focus while digging into the details on specific issues. 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 Responsibilities

* Work with research and engineering teams to define and deliver computer vision projects

* Identify and communicate program requirements, scope, constraints, dependencies, risks, mitigations

* Provide key stakeholders with full visibility of the program schedule, progress and potential roadblocks

* Proactively identify technical, legal, procedural, logistical, and communication issues and drive creative solutions to fix them and manage risk

* Ensure that the project documents are complete, current, accurate, and accessible

* Coordinate communication between internal and external teams, vendors and partners

* Establish best practices and refine processes for better communication and positive outcomes

* Cross disciplinary communication of hardware, software and electrical system requirements

* Ability to travel 30% after Covid-19 precautions

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience

* 7+ years of program management experience

* Experience leading a team from concept to deployment

* Project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group collaboration experience across more than one geographic location

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers and hardware engineers

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