Firmware Engineer, Facebook Reality Labs

Company: Facebook
Location: Santa Fe
Posted on: November 19, 2021

Job Description:

**Intro:** Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.**Summary:** At Facebook Reality Labs we aim to bring together the brightest cross-disciplinary minds in one place to deliver on our mission: build tools that help people feel connected, anytime, anywhere. As a Firmware Engineer, you will architect, design, build and test firmware systems for future AR, VR, Portal, or New Technology Teams. You will join a world-class team of experts exploring new concepts through rapid prototyping. Firmware Engineering for FRL's device systems spans multiple target classes, requiring deep collaboration across engineering disciplines (electrical, mechanical, optical, firmware and software) and directly impacting user immersion. Our ideal candidate wants to quickly solve problems, generate big ideas, work in new technology areas, drive concepts into prototypes, and envision how those prototypes transition to high-volume consumer products. In this role, you are expected to participate in the definition of architecture and implementation of architecture in both prototype and shipping consumer products as well as demonstrate good development practices and seamless collaboration.**Required Skills:** 1. Lead Firmware Engineering activities and provide technical leadership and guidance to team members2. Analyze, design, develop, and debug firmware for a wide variety of AR and VR consumer devices, including novel sensing and imaging systems, haptic devices, and audio prototypes3. Understand and implement power-management, boot loaders, scheduling, and RTOS4. Collaborate in a team environment across multiple , product focused, research, and engineering disciplines, making the architectural tradeoffs required to rapidly deliver firmware solutions5. Support all phases of SoC/ASIC development - including early architecture requirements definition for custom silicon, firmware architecture, implementation, simulation, FPGA debug, chip bring up and support systems and software teams on algorithm development on validated systems6. Understand and drive implementation of FW development good practices across teams and projects**Minimum Qualifications:** 7. B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience8. 5+ years of experience in Embedded Software or Firmware Engineering9. Experience with software design and programming in C/C++ for development, debugging, testing and performance analysis10. Experience producing production quality, fail-safe firmware for low-power real-time system control11. Experience with embedded processors like ARM Cortex M0/M3/M4 architecture and boot mechanism, interrupt priorities and experience with configuring peripherals12. Experience with peripherals such as USB, SPI, MIPICSI/DSI, I2C, UART, GPIO, etc.13. Experience analyzing hardware and power consumption14. Experience with hardware, clock-level issues, bridges, delays, interrupts, clock gating, polling, etc.15. Experience with instrumentation like oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers for debugging embedded systems at HW level16. Experience with device documentation and translate that information into software solutions17. Experience with methods of designing experiments to diagnose embedded hardware and firmware problems18. Experience with cross multi-disciplinary boundaries to drive system solutions19. Experience with working independently and managing priorities**Preferred Qualifications:** 20. M.S. of PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering21. Experience with wireless and wired communication protocols, including USB, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Bluetooth and 802.1122. Experience working with DRAM-based systems and issues related to DRAM bandwidth, power and throughput23. Experience implementing firmware for low-power SoC and tape-out of chips24. Experience with protocol implementations such as USB device classes (UVC, UAC, HID)25. Experience with embedded DSP and CPU architectures26. Experience with EDA design tools and instruction set simulators27. Experience with FPGA and vendor specific hardware evaluation boards28. Experience in real-time processing for computer vision and user interaction tasks, high-compute/throughput systems and using simulation and modeling technique to estimate performance and power**Industry:** Internet**Equal Opportunity:** Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.

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