Image Sensor Validation Engineer
1 week ago• Sunnyvale, CA
Meta Reality Labs is building products that make it easier for people to connect with the ones they love most. We are a team of experts developing and shipping products at the intersection of hardware, software, and content. Our team has the responsibility for taking breakthrough concepts and delivering them to market at scale. Meta Wearables team seeks an Engineer with system design skills and consumer electronics experience to develop and integrate solutions in future Meta products.
Image Sensor Validation Engineer Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with cross functional teams and external partners to push the boundaries of technologies and deliver best-in-class hardware solutions
- Collaborate with vendor resources to leverage their team and maximize the focus of internal resources on adding value to and differentiating our product
- Generate analytical models of subsystems and validate them through design of experiments and lab testing
- Perform static, dynamic, structural and thermal-mechanical analyses to guide design optimization before hardware prototyping
- BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or practical equivalent work experience
- 2+ years of relevant industry experience or similar
- Expertise in advanced technologies, focused on consumer electronics products
- 2+ years of experience in image sensor validation, including reviewing and authoring formal validation plans and reports
- Drive and develop methodologies for internally and externally validating systems
- Familiar with digital image processing, image quality analysis, imaging algorithms
- Understanding of Machine learning models and FPGA implementation of the models for different tracking applications is a plus
- Familiar with optical and electrical characterization tools, including oscilloscopes and analyzers
- Non-image sensors experience (ambient light, IR, and depth)
- Proficient in developing software or hardware for validation platforms and to support lab automation
- Lead technical efforts to validate the OTS and innovative image sensors
- Experience with sensor electrical and functional validation tools, including interface (I2C/I3C/C-PHY/D-PHY MIPI interfaces) and power supply
- Proficiency with data collection and analysis tools, including Python, MATLAB, and other scripting languages
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$111,000/year to $164,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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Client-provided location(s): Sunnyvale, CA
Job ID: a1KDp00000E2grLMAR
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-11-12T19:52:53
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- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA
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- Fitness Subsidies
- On-Site Gym
- Mental Health Benefits
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- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
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- Remote Work Opportunities
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- Company Outings
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- Holiday Events
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- Sabbatical
- Leave of Absence
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