Job Description

At Facebook Reality Labs Research, software development turbocharges our scientific explorations and generates viable paths to the consumer products people will use for decades to come. If you're a C++ & low-level system expert with a passion for the future of machine perception on form-factor AR glasses and a love for solving novel problems from first principles, this is a rare opportunity to join AR/VR pioneers. In our collaborative environment, youll partner with expert research scientists, hardware engineers and software developers to build groundbreaking prototypes and create the technology that makes AR/VR universal. Step into the adventure of a lifetime as we invent the future and make science fiction real. We are starting a new confidential project within the team that involves building an end-to-end machine perception system that starts from sensor sensing the world all the way to photon landing in users eyes. Such a system requires a foundational layer to be built. You will work on building the low-level libraries and foundation systems which provide centralized services for high performance client and server systems. This includes multi-threading, I/O, memory management, performance optimization, multi-platform abstractions.

Software Engineer-Foundation/Engine Responsibilities

* Analyze, evaluate, design, develop, integrate, debug and test real time AR and VR software for advanced research

* Work side-by-side with research scientists to integrate state-of-the-art algorithms into an end-to-end system

* Educate researchers and other team members on software engineering best practices, tips and techniques

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

* Work with unfamiliar hardware to integrate systems together

* Write clean readable code, debug complex problems that span systems, prioritize ruthlessly and get things done with a high level of efficiency

* Learn constantly, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of AR/VR problem solving

Minimum Qualifications

* BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics or related field

* 10+ years C/C++ experience, including C++11 (and up) features and principles

* 5+ years experience creating software for games, real-time systems or other high performance environments

* Extensive knowledge of operating systems and kernels

* Experience with platform APIs such as Vulkan, D3D, Cuda

* Experience in multi-threaded, concurrent programming

* Experience with multi-platform development

* Experience with performance and latency profiling and optimization

* Comprehensive understanding of object oriented programming

* Experience shipping one or more real-time software products of high complexity using standard software development tool sets such as source control and continuous integration systems

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience shipping AR/VR applications

* Experience in 3D mathematics and applied linear algebra

* Optimization experience, including the use of one or more SIMD instruction sets to improve performance

* Experience in GPGPU development with CUDA, OpenCL or DirectCompute

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