Software Engineer

As a Tech Lead engineer in the Wearables System Health Team at Reality Labs, you will lead strategy and drive broad execution on optimization and defense on performance and power efficiency areas across our products. You will strongly influence and collaborate with a wide-range of teams, threading together newly developed technologies to deliver most performant, energy efficient and reliable products that enhance people's experiences with our resource-constrained wearable device portfolio.

Software Engineer - Performance and Power Efficiency (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end performance and power efficiency strategy, spanning metric definition, instrumentation, tooling, automation, signal analysis and cutting-edge optimizations
• Lead effort in optimizing and defending power efficiency, performance and stability on resource-constrained systems based on targets and roadmaps
• Lead and partner with broader engineering teams to profile systems and analyze issues across the stack
• Identify and resolve highly complex/impactful quality issues, scaling solutions to help organization (e.g., building shared tools, frameworks for device automation)
• Establish and evangelize best practices and processes, while designing and enforcing budgets for critical system resources within broad product and engineering functions
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail while advocating for higher product quality and engineering efficiency
• Drive the team's technical roadmap aligned with long-term product and organizational goals
• Mentor and influence engineers across the team and organization to foster strong technical skills and collaboration
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to inform strategic decisions

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years experience in developing embedded engineering solutions in a resource constrained environment with focus on performance and power efficiency areas
• Experience with profiling, benchmarking and analyzing system compute, memory, latency and I/O performance
• Demonstrated experience working across complex software stacks to drive initiatives, implementations and optimizations
• Proven experience leading technical teams and driving multi-year roadmaps
• Track record of building cross-functional partnerships, working across functions to drive solutions
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze data and provide actionable insights

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Demonstrate specialized experience in two or more of the following areas: BSP/Board Support Package, Operating Systems, CPU/GPU/accelerators, CoreOS, Kernel, Android Kernel, Android Boot, Power Management, RTOS, Linux, Microcontroller Unit (MCU)
• Understanding of memory management and mass storage subsystems and their impacts on overall system performance
• Experience with leading large-scale and cross-functional engineering efforts
• Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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