Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer – AR/VR Devices

RiseMe; United States; On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize firmware for AR/VR/wearables. Work on low‑level systems software, device drivers, and connectivity protocols like Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, and Core Android networking.

You will collaborate with silicon architects, hardware designers, OS teams, and ML groups to tackle power, performance, and security challenges across RTOS and bare‑metal environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years software development experience in industry settings or PhD with 2+ years of experience.
• 3+ years embedded software development experience in industry settings.
• Experience in large-scale C/C++ code base.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software components at all layers of the system, including kernel, synchronization primitives, resource allocators, memory management, security, I/O systems, persistence, etc.
• Develop drivers and services that operate efficiently in constrained environments and deliver large volumes of data with low-latency and high-bandwidth
• Lead hardware bring-up, peripheral drivers and communication, silicon integration, and power and performance management and optimization efforts
• Debug complex, system-level, multi-component issues that span multiple layers from kernel to application
• Profile performance problems and drive optimizations across the entire software stack
• Analyze, design, develop, and debug firmware for a wide variety of devices, including novel sensing and imaging systems, haptic devices, and audio prototypes
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including silicon architects, hardware designers, OS team, and algorithm and model development teams
• Understand and implement power-management, boot loaders, scheduling, inter-processor communication, computer vision, and firmware/system interfaces on RTOS and/or bare-metal environments
• Design, develop, and architect models and infrastructure building blocks of Virtual Platforms, integrating internal models and vendor IP models

Skills

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Large-scale C/C++

Embedded software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

UART

SPI

CSI-2

I2C

GPIO

USB

Job description

Meta is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize firmware for AR/VR/wearables. Work on low‑level systems software, device drivers, and connectivity protocols like Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, and Core Android networking.

You will collaborate with silicon architects, hardware designers, OS teams, and ML groups to tackle power, performance, and security challenges across RTOS and bare‑metal environments.