Facebook Hiring for Director, Display System Engineering at Sunnyvale, California Full Time

Intro:

Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we’re building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we’re creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities – we’re just getting started.

Summary:

In this role, you will be joining the Display & Optics team that is responsible for the design, development, and productization of the display systems in AR, VR, and Portal family of products.

You will be leading a systems-centric engineering organization composed of multiple teams with responsibilities across the entire product life cycle, and the end-to-end system development.

Required Skills:

1. Lead an organization composed of Tech Leads and Managers spanning complementary sets of technical domains in computational display engineering, optical engineering, and image quality correction.

2. Drive the team’s charter, strategic direction, vision, and priorities through an understanding of the multi-generational product roadmap.

3. Manage the team cross the product life cycle: design, prototyping, test, validation, product implementation and production support activities.

4. Develop strong relationships with cross-functional and sister organizations. Lead and interface with inter and intra-org partners/stakeholders for engineering issues/development to help address gaps and in shaping the future products or address new changes.

5. Develop comprehensive understanding of the different product areas and apply experience, leadership, knowledge, and influence to drive for effective decision making and fast resolution.

6. Attract, develop, mentor, and retain a strong team to execute on display system engineering.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Minimum of 7 years of people management experience of highly technical individuals.

2. Minimum of 10 years of experience working in an optics, display, or related field.

3. Technical skills in one or more of the following: system engineering, AR displays, the intersection of hardware and software in relation to displays.

4. Proven leadership skills with self-awareness, situational/organizational awareness.

5. Experience in influencing a great latitude on outcomes. Experience presenting complicated issues to senior leadership.

6. Proven role model for direct reports.

7. Proven communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

8. Adept at working in a fast-paced environment and in early stages of product development, and with a high level of ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. PhD degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering.

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity: Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].