Engineering Manager, Data Systems Hardware & Operations

Reality Labs is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Data Systems Hardware & Operations team. This team supports Codec Avatars, Input, and Health programs across all RL devices.

You'll manage a multi-disciplinary engineering team (mechanical, electrical, systems engineering, and firmware/embedded software) that designs, builds, and tests complex, large-scale data capture systems: multi-camera rigs with sophisticated lighting, synchronization, high-bandwidth data capture, and storage infrastructure. You'll also own the data collection operations that deploy these systems across North America, enabling the algorithm development and research that powers all of our devices.

In this role, you will combine hands-on technical work with people leadership. You'll get hands-on with critical hardware challenges, represent and advocate for the hardware engineering craft, and develop the overall data collection strategy with program leaders and stakeholders. That means translating product and research roadmaps into collection plans, defining system requirements, and making sure operational capacity keeps up with program needs.

You will coordinate across researchers, engineers, and operations teams, determining project priority, feasibility, and resource allocation across programs with competing timelines.