Senior Optical Manufacturing Design Engineer

Meta; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta’s Reality Labs is seeking an SME engineer to drive manufacturing solutions from concept to production for smart glasses and AR/VR products. You will collaborate across engineering design, operations, and supply chain to implement process and technical solutions with vendors.

The role emphasizes experience in optical and mechanical manufacturing, process development, and data-driven qualification, with travel to vendor sites up to 30% of the time.

Qualifications

• BS degree or higher in Materials, Mechanical, Chemistry, Physics or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of technical hands-on experience with mechanical, display, camera or optical manufacturing.
• Experience partnering with multiple cross functional partners.
• Experience with consumer electronics manufacturing and/or highly cosmetic parts.
• Experience with statistical analysis methods applied to manufacturing data.
• Experience with quality engineering tasks such as defect characterization, yield summary reporting, and driving yield improvement activities.

Responsibilities

• Drive manufacturing process innovation in optical and mechanical component solutions for Smart Glass, and AR/VR products
• Work with Hardware Engineering, Sourcing, Quality and Tech Ops Team to identify, audit and select the best suppliers’ partner to manufacture our products
• Responsible for CMF processes (PVD, CVD, sputtering, printing, coating, painting), cover window manufacturing, film/lens lamination, die cut, laser cutting, adhesion, cover window coating process development
• Process DFM, process bring-up, and qualification
• Develop MP-intent equipment, processes, and materials
• Set CTQ criteria to validate key processes
• Run statistical analysis from data collected through trials and investigations
• Work with the internal Quality Team to define quality characterization, inspection methodology, and qualification of components before components ship to downstream vendors
• Work with the Hardware Engineering, Quality, and Reliability teams to debug optical/ mechanical issues related to component development from NPI to ramp
• Travel to vendor sites to validate and support development (up to 30%)

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Manufacturing design

Statistical analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS degree in Materials, Mechanical, Chemistry, Physics or equivalent

Tools

PVD

CVD

Sputtering

Job description

Meta’s Reality Labs is seeking an SME engineer to drive manufacturing solutions from concept to production for smart glasses and AR/VR products. You will collaborate across engineering design, operations, and supply chain to implement process and technical solutions with vendors.

The role emphasizes experience in optical and mechanical manufacturing, process development, and data-driven qualification, with travel to vendor sites up to 30% of the time.