Job Description

As a Material & Process Engineer at Facebook Reality Labs, you will be responsible for development and productizing precision optical components that are core to delivering transformative experiences for Facebooks AR and VR products. You will join and lead a team that is working on radically new concepts and approaches required because of new constraints imposed by advanced AR/VR devices. You will develop prototypes and products and establish new process capabilities with supply-chain partners and releasing product sub-systems that are fully hardened for high-volume manufacturing. We want people who work well in teams comprising a wide range of disciplines, who seamlessly transition between brainstorming big ideas and paying attention to those critical details that enable the technologies success. Based on a robust engineering background and a data driven approach, ideal candidates should demonstrate experience through a successful track record of bringing products from concept into mass production.

Material & Process Engineer (Optical) Responsibilities

* Development and productizing precision optical components

* Establish and develop vendor and supply chain partner relationships

* Drive innovation on materials and processing of such optical components to meet stringent requirements

Minimum Qualifications

* Masters degree in Material Science, Chemical (Plastic) Engineering or Optical Engineering, similar areas or equivalent experience.

* 7+ years of experience in manufacturing and process development of optical components.

* Experience in sequential ray tracing, optical simulation and tolerancing using ZEMAX or Code V.

* Working experience with plastic and glass optical material and engineering.

* Experience with optical grade injection molding and casting manufacturing methods.

* Experience with ophthalmic coatings design and manufacturing.

* Experience designing hardware/software consumer products, at least 1 full product life cycle concept to launch.

* Experience of chemical test and DOE design and data analysis for problem solving.

* Experience of material analysis and characterization skills.

Preferred Qualifications

* PhD degree in Material Science, Chemical (Plastic) Engineering or Optical Engineering, with lens manufacturing experience, or equivalent experience.

* 10+ years of experience.

* Experience in novel manufacturing techniques, processes, and materials.

* Experience with lamination, coating and multilayer and multi-material stacks.

* Experience in multiple full life cycle hardware/software consumer product launches.

* FDA regulatory experience.

* Experience with MATLAB.

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About the Facebook company

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