Job Description

The Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) Audio Tech Team brings together world-class experts to develop and ship groundbreaking products at the intersection of hardware, software, and content. We have a clear mandate to ship products at scale. In particular, seemingly impossible products that define new categories that advance Facebook's mission of connecting the world. The team will apply breakthrough development at the intersection of ambitious science and product development. It will operate on aggressive, fixed timelines, with extensive use of partnerships in universities, small and large businesses. The Audio Tech Team has the responsibility for taking breakthroughs and delivering them to market at scale. As Manager, Audio Hardware in the FRL organization at Facebook, you will build and lead the audio system's design team that pushes forward the state of virtual reality and augmented reality across the fields of acoustics, audio DSP and audio electrical design. You should be passionate about experimenting with new audio designs as well as being rock solid competent when it comes to implementing them for production. You and your team will directly own the design, implementation, and validation of VR/AR and consumer hardware audio systems across the lifecycle from initial conception to mass production.

Manager, Audio Hardware (FRL) Responsibilities

* Build, mentor and manage a team responsible for consumer audio product development

* Lead the team in developing new technologies, prototypes (proof of experiences and proof of concepts) and drive the audio VR/AR roadmap

* Develop a forward looking technology shelf and dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies

* Lead the team of engineers in executing audio system design integration for consumer VR hardware projects from concept proposal to mass production

* Coach, mentor, and develop a team of engineers

* Collaborate with mechanical engineering team on the integration of audio system into VR/AR and consumer hardware products

* Lead team in debug and resolution of audio related issues

* Work with vendors to create customized transducers to meet high performance requirements

* Hands-on involvement with the team in the development of audio systems in hardware projects (Design, Data analysis, validation, and factory support)

* Champion a data driven culture, operational excellence, and establishing processes and operational metrics and KPIs

* Lead a team of DSP Engineers to develop world class audio enhancement algorithms for communications, Always On Assistant, and music enhancement in Matlab, floating point, and fixed point languages

* Develop new algorithms, User experiences, and features for communications, virtual reality and augmented reality experiences

* Articulate a multi-generational roadmap

* Identify, evaluate and drive third party algorithm vendors

* Partner with academia and industry partners on new innovation opportunities

Minimum Qualifications

* BS in Engineering: Electrical, Physics, Acoustics, DSP Algorithm or equivalent experience

* 10+ years of experience in audio system design

* People management experience, with a proven experience hiring and growing personnel

* Experience in designing and shipping high volume consumer products that includes audio systems

* Experience in audio acoustic measurements including using equipment from Audio Precision, SoundCheck, G.R.A.S, Bruel & Kjaer, and/or HEAD acoustics

* Knowledge of acoustic development of transducers for headphone, speakers and microphone systems

* Knowledge of electrical design of audio systems including component selection (CODEC, audio amplifiers, microphones, etc.)

* Knowledge of audio digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm development and tuning for echo cancellers, noise suppression, equalizers, filters, etc.

* Knowledge of acoustic simulation of transducers and modules using lumped sum and FEM tools (MicroCap, COMSOL, SysNoise, Virtual Lab, etc.)

* Experience working with offshore partners

* Communication experience, with experience working with Product Design engineers and other hardware/software cross-functional functions

* Demonstrated understanding of how end-to-end audio systems work including transducers, audio ICs, acoustics, embedded DSPs, in mobile and embedded platforms

* DSP Algorithm development experience creating efficient real-time audio algorithms in any of the following areas: Echo Controls, Multi mic noise reduction, Speech Intelligibility Enhancement, Microphone beamforming, AGC, Multi band compression, HRTF Surround Sound, Speaker Array processing

Preferred Qualifications

* MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

* 10+ years of experience in Fixed Point and Floating point Audio Algorithm development into embedded DSPs and ARM ocres

* Experience in embedded Low Footprint machine learning and application of machine learning techniques to music enhancement algorithms

* Experience in machine learning for Audio Scene Classification

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About the Facebook company

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.

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