Camera System Engineer Job Sunnyvale area,California USA,Engineering

Summary:

Meta’s Reality Lab designs and manufactures camera, depth sensing, and illuminators for Meta's AR/VR and wearable devices. We own our modules end-to-end, from architecture and requirements through design, qualification, and mass-production ramp by leading cross-functional partners and offshore vendors, defining specifications, and driving failure analysis and quality improvement to deliver high-quality modules.

As the technical technical owner for this role, you will own the design and delivery of advanced sensing and illuminator modules for Meta's next-generation products. The role spans multiple sensing and illumination domains, including thermal imaging and sensing. You will explore the solution landscape, determine what best fits our use cases, and define the module requirements, from detector and component selection through system integration.

You will take this effort from new-technology initiative (NTI) through to new-product introduction (NPI), working closely with internal cross-functional partners and with offshore vendors and module integrators to manufacture these modules.

Required Skills:

Camera System Engineer Responsibilities:

Technical leadership and ownership, serving as the primary point of contact for all technical aspects of the modules

Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including architecture, sensor, mechanical, electrical, optical, validation, process, testing, quality, reliability, system hardware and software engineering, etc., to ensure that the modules integrate seamlessly into the overall system, resolve technical challenges, and drive project success

Own the imaging/projector module as technical DRI, from solution exploration and vendor/detector evaluation through design, build, qualification, and ramp

Translate product features into system, module, and component-level requirements

Define detector and module requirements (e.g., frame rate, resolution, size, cost, power) and evolve them as the program matures

Support the NTI effort and drive it through the NPI process

Lead module packaging and assembly definition for consumer-grade, mass-production manufacturing

Work closely with offshore vendors and module integrators to manufacture these modules, supporting bring-up, troubleshooting, and quality at the factory

Conduct detailed DFMEA and PFMEA

own failure analysis and optical testing of the module

Analyze data from actual builds to validate design and simulation accuracy, lead iterative design cycles based on data analysis to ensure continuous improvement and refinement of the module

Maintain detailed documentation of all technical decisions, design iterations, and testing results

Regularly report on progress, challenges/escalations, and successes to leadership and other stakeholders

Up to 20% of travel, both domestic and international, to vendors and manufacturing sites as needed

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field

6+ years of industry experience in optical sensing modules (e.g., camera modules, depth modules, ToF, structured light, stereo, active illumination systems) for consumer electronics or similar high-volume products

Experience as a camera-module technical owner, or equivalent end-to-end module ownership

Working experience with packaging technology, assembly and test methods at consumer / mass-production scale for camera, illumination and projector modules

Experience with CMOS image sensors, thermal sensors, and with illuminators (LED, VCSEL)

Experience taking an NTI project into NPI

Experience conducting detailed DFMEA and PFMEA, and with optical testing of modules

Experience working with offshore vendors and module…