Staff Systems Engineer, Data Platforms & Ground Truth - Equity

Meta; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 173,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta Reality Labs is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to define and drive hardware systems architecture for next-generation ground truth data collection systems. You will own end-to-end architecture spanning sensor streaming, calibration, and data pipelines, partnering with ML/CV teams to translate requirements into system specifications.

You will lead architectural trade-offs, drive cross-functional decisions, and deliver governance for integration, test, and transition to Operations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in hardware systems architecture or systems engineering for consumer electronics, wearables, or mobile computing platforms.
• Experience defining system-level requirements and allocating performance budgets across heterogeneous hardware subsystems.
• Experience leading cross-functional hardware architecture decisions from concept through mass production, including silicon bring-up and system validation.
• Experience developing multi-generation hardware platform roadmaps and driving technical alignment across silicon, firmware, and mechanical engineering teams.
• Experience communicating complex hardware architecture trade-offs in writing to both technical peers and non-technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and own end-to-end hardware system architecture for ground truth data collection systems, spanning sensor streaming, synchronization, calibration, and data pipeline subsystems.
• Partner with ML and CV feature teams to translate data collection requirements into system-level specifications.
• Develop system-level requirements and allocate performance budgets across custom sensor platforms, synchronization hardware, and data infrastructure to meet ground truth quality targets.
• Lead architectural trade-off analyses across data throughput, synchronization precision, calibration accuracy, latency, and cost.
• Drive alignment on data systems architecture decisions across hardware, firmware, software, and operations teams through written proposals and cross-functional reviews.
• Establish and maintain system integration frameworks that enable early detection of cross-subsystem risks in data collection pipelines.
• Define and oversee bring-up and validation strategies for complex multi-sensor data capture platforms.
• Lead systems through integration, test, and transition to Operations, ensuring production readiness and operational sustainability.
• Develop long-term data systems platform roadmaps that anticipate ML/CV feature requirements and inform hardware and infrastructure decisions.
• Mentor other engineers on systems architecture methodology and contribute to raising the technical bar across the data systems organization.
• Demonstrate a service mindset by staying hands-on with day-to-day work and supporting tasks at all levels—no task is too small or too senior for this role

Skills

Hardware systems architecture

Data systems

Systems engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements allocation

Architecture trade-offs

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Meta Reality Labs is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to define and drive hardware systems architecture for next-generation ground truth data collection systems. You will own end-to-end architecture spanning sensor streaming, calibration, and data pipelines, partnering with ML/CV teams to translate requirements into system specifications.

You will lead architectural trade-offs, drive cross-functional decisions, and deliver governance for integration, test, and transition to Operations.