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Electrical Engineer, Reality Labs Hardware

Meta· Engineering
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Redmond, WA$144k - $204kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Hands-on research hardware role designing and bringing up prototyping electronics for Reality Labs display and optical architectures at Meta. Own end-to-end prototype electronics, design drive electronics for illumination and modulators, and collaborate across optics, mechanics, and firmware to move systems from benchtop to wearable prototypes.

Responsibilities

  • Own prototype electronics end to end: requirements, architecture, schematic capture, layout direction, fabrication, bring-up, characterization, and documentation, including the build-versus-buy call on hardware you own
  • Design rigid, flex, and rigid-flex PCBs for weight- and power-constrained near-eye form factors, working to outlines, bend zones, and height budgets set with mechanical and opto-mechanical engineers
  • Design precision drive electronics for illumination sources, displays, and a variety of sensors and modulators: multi-channel current control, frame-synchronized pulsed waveforms, photodiode feedback, thermal interlocks, and crosstalk and uniformity control
  • Own all aspects of new display bring-up, including interface definition and control, timing generation and synchronization, and supporting logic development for coordination with other system elements
  • Support feature requests from metrology and experience development teams needed to characterize and demonstrate the features of new displays and other technologies
  • Bring up new boards on the bench, debug ambiguous cross-domain failures, and drive efficiency, noise, and thermal performance to what the optical measurement requires
  • Collaborate with optics, mechanics, and firmware to carry systems from benchtop to wearable prototypes; build the instrumentation and documentation others depend on; and turn researchers' optical requirements into electrical specs, finding creative system level solutions to difficult requirements

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and/or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ years of hands-on electrical engineering experience taking custom hardware from concept through schematic, layout, fabrication, bring-up, and characterization
  • Schematic capture and PCB layout fluency (Altium, Cadence/OrCAD/Allegro, Mentor/Siemens, or equivalent)
  • Embedded systems experience: microcontroller selection and bring-up, peripheral configuration, and the common digital buses (I2C, SPI, UART, USB), plus the ability to write and modify the firmware needed to make your own board work
  • Strong lab and bench practice: oscilloscope, DMM, power supply, electronic load, LCR, spectrum or network analyzer, DAQ — plus soldering, rework, and harness fabrication on your own hardware
  • Experience writing technical documentation and specs that enable other engineers to act independently

Skills

Required:Schematic capture and PCB layoutEmbedded systemsLaboratory and bench skills
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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