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Camera System Engineer

Meta· Hardware
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Sunnyvale, CAFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Meta’s Reality Lab designs and manufactures camera, depth sensing, and illuminators for AR/VR and wearable devices. The role owns the design and delivery of advanced sensing and illuminator modules from NTI through NPI, collaborating with offshore vendors and cross-functional teams to manufacture high-quality modules.

Responsibilities

  • Technical leadership and ownership, serving as the primary point of contact for all technical aspects of the modules
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure modules integrate into the overall system, resolve technical challenges, and drive project success
  • Own the imaging/projector module as technical DRI, from solution exploration and vendor/detector evaluation through design, build, qualification, and ramp
  • Translate product features into system, module, and component-level requirements
  • Define detector and module requirements (e.g., frame rate, resolution, size, cost, power) and evolve them as the program matures
  • Support the NTI effort and drive it through the NPI process
  • Lead module packaging and assembly definition for consumer-grade, mass-production manufacturing
  • Work with offshore vendors and module integrators to manufacture these modules, supporting bring-up, troubleshooting, and quality at the factory
  • Conduct detailed DFMEA and PFMEA; own failure analysis and optical testing of the module
  • Analyze data from actual builds to validate design and simulation accuracy; lead iterative design cycles for continuous improvement
  • Maintain detailed documentation of technical decisions, design iterations, and testing results
  • Regularly report progress, challenges/escalations, and successes to leadership and stakeholders
  • Up to 20% travel to vendors and manufacturing sites as needed

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or related field
  • 6+ years of experience in optical sensing modules for consumer electronics or high-volume products
  • Experience as a camera-module technical owner or end-to-end module ownership
  • Experience with packaging technology, assembly and test methods for camera/illumination/projector modules at mass-production scale
  • Experience with CMOS image sensors, thermal sensors, and illuminators (LED, VCSEL)
  • Experience taking an NTI project into NPI
  • Experience conducting DFMEA and PFMEA and with optical testing of modules
  • Experience working with offshore vendors and module integrators in a manufacturing environment
  • Demonstrated ability to translate product features into system/module/component requirements
  • Experience handling complex problems across large cross-functional teams

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipSystems engineering

Benefits

  • benefits listed under Meta benefits page (explicit benefits not enumerated in the posting)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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