Research Technical Program Manager (Hardware)
Meta

At Meta Reality Labs (RL), we're developing the future of augmented reality. As a Research Technical Program Manager, you are a critical member of a multidisciplinary team contributing to our efforts to gain a scientific understanding of human and machine perception; translating it into the ultimate AI and AR experience for our users. You will work closely with a team of engineers in Reality Labs Research to build research hardware like Project Aria (https://www.projectaria.com/). Project Aria is a research tool which accelerates Meta's machine perception and AI learnings from a human. You are accountable for timely and efficient execution of technical programs at quality. To be successful, your goal is to accelerate development by eliminating barriers to your team's success, clearly communicating results to all stakeholders and ensuring that the big picture and long term strategy remains in focus while going deep as you manage the project day to day.

Research Technical Program Manager (Hardware) Responsibilities:

• Scope problems with a cross-org view and translate complex technical details into simple-to-understand communications, while also serving as the golden thread across teams to drive alignment and create cohesion.
• Define the technical program or platform strategy, and build a plan with technical dependencies and balance trade-offs to deliver desired outcomes
• Drive end-to-end execution and delivery of technical programs from ideation, technical and data analysis, system design, development, testing, and implementation and post-implementation
• Drive cross-org dependencies and alignment, collaborate on success-metrics, and communicate program status with stakeholders to ensure progress on goals
• Align and drive deliverables among external partners and internal hardware and software teams to achieve milestones
• Look ahead to identify risks and issues in advance where possible, and proactively dive deep, work hands-on, and partner with XFN to mitigate and solve those

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 7+ years of program management experience delivering hardware or consumer electronics
• Working knowledge of Product Development Process (PDP) and Software Development Lifecycle (SDL)
• Proven program management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group collaboration skills with a proven track record of managing complex projects with a variety of partner teams
• Versatility in corresponding, presenting, and facilitating to all levels of the organization technical and non-technical content
• Experience working in a highly ambiguous technology field with rapidly changing requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in related fields such as Computer Science
• Experience in shipping AR/VR or computer vision enabled products or services
• Experience working in a research group or startup

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