Senior AI Systems Architect, On-Device Imaging & AR/VR HW

Meta; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 208,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Reality Labs seeks a principal-level AI Systems Engineer to define the hardware architecture strategy for next-generation AI-accelerated computing systems powering VR/AR devices. You will shape silicon and systems roadmaps for on-device AI inference and training across wearables, headsets, and spatial computing.

A core focus is imaging systems and camera pipelines enabling real-time perception and mixed reality experiences.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in hardware systems architecture focused on AI/imaging
• Deep expertise in camera pipeline architecture and ISP
• Experience defining SoC/system-level architecture for AI workloads
• Experience with hardware-software co-design for on-device AI

Responsibilities

• Define multi-generation hardware architecture strategy for AI inference and training on VR/AR wearables
• Lead system-level exploration across compute, memory, interconnect, and power
• Architect end-to-end camera and imaging pipelines with ISP integration
• Drive HW-SW co-design with silicon, firmware, camera systems, and ML platform teams
• Define requirements for camera subsystems including multi-camera sync and depth sensing
• Develop performance models to evaluate architectural decisions

Skills

AI hardware architecture

Camera pipeline design

SoC architecture

HW/SW co-design

Tools

ML compiler stacks

Job description

Meta Reality Labs seeks a principal-level AI Systems Engineer to define the hardware architecture strategy for next-generation AI-accelerated computing systems powering VR/AR devices. You will shape silicon and systems roadmaps for on-device AI inference and training across wearables, headsets, and spatial computing.

A core focus is imaging systems and camera pipelines enabling real-time perception and mixed reality experiences.