At Meta's Reality Labs Research, our goal is to make world-class consumer virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. Come work alongside industry-leading scientists and engineers to create the technology that makes VR and AR pervasive and universal. Join the adventure of a lifetime as we make science fiction real and change the world. The Sensors and Systems Research (SSR) group is currently searching for a full-time SoC Systems Architect to pioneer, develop, and prototype innovative intelligent sensing systems and prototypes. This role requires a proven track record in advancing state-of-the-art efficient SoC architecture, strong systems skills, prior experience driving architecture convergence on complex consumer electronics products, and skills in software/hardware co-design for distributed ML, generative AI workload. This role presents a unique opportunity to drive innovation at the forefront of the AR/VR technology revolution while collaborating with a diverse group of cross-disciplinary experts to create state-of-the-art, human-oriented sensing and computing solutions.

• Own new sensor system prototype definition, power optimization modeling, and use case data flow and latency analysis.
• Define system power and latency requirements for subsystem teams and drive cross-functional workstream prioritization.
• Work with product management, engineering teams, research scientists across HW, SW, and FW and connect the E2E technical stack and determine prototype feature sets.
• Define hardware/software architecture for state-of-the-art Always-On AI wearable research systems based on SSR sensor technologies.
• Collaborate with experts in different fields to make architectural tradeoffs.
• Communicate technology and system strategy effectively to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Help define long-term technology roadmap and possible product interception.
• Foster collaboration with a diverse teams and research pillars including Optics, Silicon Technology, Sensors, System Architecture, Security, and ML domain experts, actively engaging and collaborating.
• Plan and execute cutting-edge research and prototyping with AR/VR systems.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of SoC architecture experience in electrical, computer engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with system architecture across electrical, firmware, software, audio, silicon, and thermal engineering.
• Experience in SoC architecture, including heterogeneous compute, NoC/interconnect, multi-die configurations, cache hierarchies, shared memory, coherency, generative AI workloads, security, as well as code generators, Linux drivers, and web service standards.
• Experience in Communication experience working with Product Managers and other hardware/software cross-functional teams.
• Experience modeling system power and using those models, inform trade-offs against key architectural decisions (e.g. sensor features, battery life, thermals, silicon roadmaps, power load profiles).

• Understanding of memory subsystems including volatile memory and memory management and their impacts on overall system performance.
• Experience with AR/VR or systems aimed at capturing/processing/delivering audio, visual, IMU or other positional data streams.
• Experience creating system models to analyze system compute, latency, and communication interface bandwidths.
• Working knowledge or experience in imaging and audio interfaces, optical, sensors, modules, ISP and algorithm fundamentals, computer vision and machine learning.