Staff Systems Engineer, Data Systems for AR/VR

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta Reality Labs seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to define and drive hardware systems architecture for ground truth data collection systems, spanning sensor streaming, synchronization and data infrastructure. You will partner with ML/CV teams to translate requirements into system-level specifications and lead bring-up, validation, and transition to Operations.

The role involves defining architecture decisions across hardware, firmware, software, and operations, with a focus on performance

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hardware systems architecture or systems engineering for consumer electronics, wearables, or mobile computing.
• 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 (Eye Tracking, Hand Tracking, Holograms, Silent Speech, Health) 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 competing design dimensions including 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 architecture

Data systems

Sensor integration

Cross-functional collaboration

System validation

Job description

Meta Reality Labs seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to define and drive hardware systems architecture for ground truth data collection systems, spanning sensor streaming, synchronization and data infrastructure. You will partner with ML/CV teams to translate requirements into system-level specifications and lead bring-up, validation, and transition to Operations.

The role involves defining architecture decisions across hardware, firmware, software, and operations, with a focus on performance