Codec Avatars TPM - Meta

Meta Reality Labs Research is dedicated to the research and development required to bring virtual and augmented reality to billions of people around the world. To give people the power to build community, to share what matters most to them, and to bring people closer together. To that end, our team is specifically focused on making interpersonal, social experience in virtual reality and augmented reality, perceptually indistinguishable from real life. Our goal? To enable the ability to interact with anyone, anytime, anywhere.At Meta Reality Labs Research Codec Avatars, you will join a world-class team exploring cutting edge machine learning, computer vision, hardware, software, and state-of-the-art Augmented and Virtual reality technology. Every day, you will work alongside the world's leading Research Scientists, Research Engineers and Software Engineers to create the technology that will make VR and AR pervasive and universal.For this role, RL-R is looking for an exceptional Technical Program Manager to join our team. If your passion and experience lies in working with multidisciplinary teams and building the right processes and methodologies for them; if you’ve had experience with complex cutting edge technology; if you thrive helping your team coordinate and collaborate in the face of ambitious and ambiguous challenges, taking on work that has never been done before; we might have a spot for you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Codec Avatars TPM Responsibilities:

• Managing software engineering efforts building applications and data pipelines for research
• Partnering with research leads to set goals, direction, and strategy for development of applications and data pipelines.. Translating that into goals, team schedules, and strategy in partnership with key team leads.
• Setting and maintaining expectations. Ensuring the project has a unified clear vision, understood goals, and expectations of progress.
• Keeping partners and stakeholders informed and involved. Being able to represent your program at a deep level throughout the org, to be able to build the appropriate communication channels both within and outside the team.
• Ensuring work is adequately scoped for the resources and time available. Effectively escalating or resolving resourcing issues to accomplish the team's mission.
• Keeping the project unblocked and effective. Identifying blockers and working with the project team to resolve or escalate for help.
• Iterative process improvements. Leverage the least amount of process to accomplish the goal. Ask, "Is there a better way?“. Evaluate retrospectives to add, adjust, and remove processes based on learnings.
• Bringing software domain experience that enables better project outcomes by leveraging knowledge of that domain to ask the right questions, make suggestions on next steps, and push the project in the right direction.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• 5+ years of experience in technical program management in software engineering
• Experience with complex software integration, research data, and rapid development practices
• Experience with machine learning and computer vision pipelines
• Experience developing user facing applications
• Project management, leadership, task tracking, dependency management and cross-group collaboration experience
• Experience leading a team from concept to completion of a program
• Communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers and data scientists
• Experience with compliance with privacy and/or security requirements
• Experience with research grade data management
• Experience with AR/VR user facing applications