Research Engineer, R&D integration, Live Telepresence with Codec Avatars

Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Job Description

Come invent the future. At Meta Reality Labs Research, software development is vital to empowering our scientific explorations and generating viable paths to the consumer products people will use for decades to come — products that will truly give people superpowers. If you're a research engineer with deep knowledge of real-time systems, have a love for solving novel problems from first principles, and an aptitude for optimization, then you'll thrive in our collaborative environment. Join a world-class team of pioneers experimenting with breakthrough interaction technology including virtual humans and live telepresence. Partner with expert research scientists, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and other brilliant software minds to build cutting-edge prototypes and create the technology that makes AR/VR universal. At the lab, we aspire to a vision of social VR and AR where people are able to interact with each other across distances in a way that is indistinguishable from in-person interactions, with Codec Avatars that look like you and move like you. We're just getting started. You can help us make this dream a reality and accomplish your life’s best work here!

Research Engineer, R&D integration, Live Telepresence with Codec Avatars Responsibilities

  • Analyze, evaluate, design, develop, integrate, debug and test real-time AR and VR software for realistic telepresence. Participate in design reviews and code reviews
  • Collaborate in a team environment across multiple scientific and engineering disciplines, making architectural trade-offs required to rapidly deliver software solutions
  • Work with research scientists and engineers to understand challenges in building state-of-the-art software systems
  • Write clean readable code, leverage excellent problem solving skills to debug complex problems that span systems, prioritize ruthlessly and work efficiently
  • Learn constantly, educate others, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of AR/VR problem solving
  • Propose and implement reliable, maintainable, and scalable system-level software solutions to facilitate research activities

Minimum Qualifications

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
  • Understanding of Machine Learning/Computer Vision/Graphics fundamentals
  • 3+ years experience with modern C++
  • 3+ years experience with Python
  • Experience with software development and debugging on Windows
  • Experience developing, debugging, and shipping software products on large code bases that span platforms and tools
  • Experience developing APIs, SDKs and developer tools
  • Experience in profiling software performance, including Machine Learning or Graphics workloads
  • Experience working independently and in highly dynamic environments
  • Interpersonal and cross-functional experience: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with working on and manipulating 3D data (such as meshes, point clouds, and voxels)
  • Experience programming in C#
  • Experience developing AR/VR applications
  • Experience with game engines like Unity
  • Experience with real-time communication and inter-process communication
  • Experience developing software for Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, or Robotics applications
  • Experience with deep learning model design and development in PyTorch
  • Experience developing and debugging in large cluster environments
  • Experience developing in high performance computing GPU cluster environments (i.e. AWS, google cloud) as well as related platform technologies (containerization, distributed task schedulers, storage and network software technologies)

Company Info.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook Inc.) is a large technology company that was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and several of his college roommates. The company is based in Menlo Park, California, and is primarily known for its flagship social media platform, Facebook. In addition to its consumer-facing products, Meta Platforms also offers a range of advertising and marketing services to businesses and organizations.

  • Industry
    Advertising,Consumer electronics,Social media Company,Artificial intelligence
  • No. of Employees
    76,000
  • Location
    1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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