Software Engineer, Core OS Capabilities

Reality Labs at Meta is building first-of-a-kind products that make it easier for people to connect with the ones they love most and the environment in natural and innovative ways. We leverage cutting edge technologies and platforms to build rich features, ensure high performance, security and privacy with power/thermal constraint. We are a team of experts developing and shipping products at the intersection of hardware, software and content.

As a Software Engineer on the Reality Labs team at Meta, you can help build new, innovative hardware and software that radically redefine the way people work, play and connect. What we build today could one day be the norm. So to be here today is to truly be at the heart of change and the frontier of what's to come. We're the people helping to define the metaverse and next generation computing. We may not have all the answers. But together, we're getting closer.

Responsibilities

Drive the team's engineering activities throughout the product development lifecycle, providing technical guidance to team members
Plan, analyze, design, develop, and debug system software across high-level operating systems (HLOS) and RTOS environments
Design, implement, and maintain core OS capabilities, focusing on security basics, privacy frameworks, memory encryption, biometrics, and SoC AI accelerator services/HAL including ExecuTorch integration
Debug complex, system-level, multi-component issues that typically span across multiple layers in the system, and between systems (Android, RTOS etc)
Bring up new devices and lead debugging that spans multiple hardware and software teams
Collaborate in a team environment across multiple engineering disciplines, making the architectural tradeoffs required to rapidly deliver base level software for the devices
Support factory SW development, device calibration, factory line bring up and failure analysis

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years software development experience in industry settings or PhD with 2+ years of experience
Experience with design and programming in C or C++ for development, debugging, testing and performance analysis
Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex issues involving multiple components in hardware, BSP/OS, and firmware
Experience with system software development on HLOS or RTOS platforms
Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
Experience with core OS capabilities such as security fundamentals, privacy protection, encryption techniques, or biometrics Experience developing with SoC BSP/Android system level, or modern Real Time Operating Systems
Experience with software diagnostics and analysis tools for system-level debugging
Experience developing, debugging, and shipping software products on large code bases that span platforms and tools
Experience leading complex features or projects across multiple teams
Prior full life cycle base platform level software/firmware development experience to bring a high volume product from design to mass production
Prior experience in supporting large volume device manufacturing
Experience designing and developing SoC AI accelerator software, Hardware Abstraction Layers (HAL), or machine learning runtime frameworks such as ExecuTorch
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies