Manufacturing Research Engineer: Prototyping & Scale

Meta; Redmond; On-site; AUD 248,000 - 351,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Manufacturing Research Engineer for Reality Labs Research to develop scalable manufacturing processes for state-of-the-art hardware prototypes, spanning research-stage components to pilot production. You will lead cross-functional teams, optimize manufacturability, and define the maturation path for complex prototypes, while expanding in-house capabilities and managing external partners.

Preferred candidates hold a Master’s in a relevant field and have 8+ years’ experience in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, other relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience scaling hardware technologies from early-stage feasibility to pilot-production or mass manufacture.
• Experience developing high-volume consumer products with stringent constraints in wearables, robotics, or similar.
• Experience designing and implementing process development plans, DOE, critical process parameters, and quality control strategies.
• Experience defining hardware build and supply chain plans, and managing external manufacturing vendors to meet program schedule and quality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing development activities across cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-performing hardware prototypes.
• Provide design-for-manufacturability, assembly, and test feedback to research scientists and engineers to improve the manufacturing feasibility of novel technologies.
• Set manufacturing technical direction across multiple concurrent research programs, defining and executing the process maturation path that scales state-of-the-art components and prototypes from early feasibility to pilot-production volumes.
• Grow in-house manufacturing capabilities and manage external manufacturing partnerships.
• Raise the bar for manufacturing excellence and best practices by developing, and continuously improving, processes and relationships which empower researchers and design engineers to build increasingly complex systems.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Design of experiments

AI tool integration

Process development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing/Process/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

NX CAD

Job description

Meta is seeking a Manufacturing Research Engineer for Reality Labs Research to develop scalable manufacturing processes for state-of-the-art hardware prototypes, spanning research-stage components to pilot production. You will lead cross-functional teams, optimize manufacturability, and define the maturation path for complex prototypes, while expanding in-house capabilities and managing external partners.

Preferred candidates hold a Master’s in a relevant field and have 8+ years’ experience in