Display System Engineer
Meta
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
USD 204k-281k / year + Equity
Posted on Oct 8, 2025
Display System Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA • Redmond, WA • Full Time
Meta
AR/VR
Facebook Reality Labs
Hardware
Engineering
As a Display System Engineer at Meta Reality Labs, you will drive the end-to-end design and delivery of advanced binocular display systems for AR products. This role requires technical expertise across optical, mechanical, calibration, and system interface domains, as well as leadership in cross-functional environments. You will be responsible for defining system architecture, requirements, and execution strategies, ensuring successful productization from concept through high-volume manufacturing.
Display System Engineer Responsibilities
- Drive the design and integration of full binocular display systems, including optics, mechanics, calibration, and system interfaces
- Define sub-system requirements with the product team, then deliver AR/VR hardware, software, and calibration that meets specifications. This may include: hardware (optics, electronics, mechanics, silicon, sensors, data communication), software (computer vision algorithms, calibration, modeling, analysis), and performance analysis
- Resolve requirements discrepancies and ensure alignment across all engineering disciplines
- Drive cross-functional engagement with partners to develop concepts and prototypes into manufacturable product hardware
- Collaborate with product, hardware, software, calibration, integration, and validation teams to deliver AR/VR hardware that meets specifications
- Lead design verification, testing, and troubleshooting to correlate with optical modeling, metrology, and system performance
- Influence technical direction and strategy across the organization
- Mentor and develop engineers and cross-functional partners
Minimum Qualifications
- MS or BS in Engineering, Physics, Optics, or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in developing complex optical systems, with at least 5 years in a technical leadership role
- 5+ years of experience and knowledge of optics three or more of the following: systems design and integration, imaging, illumination, radiometry and photometry, physical and geometric optics, statistics, and polarization
- Demonstrated expertise in binocular display system design and integration
- Experience on shipping products with advanced optical systems
- Collaboration experience and influencing skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with full product life cycle launches in AR/VR or wearable display systems
- Familiarity with display calibration functions and graphics pipelines
- In-depth knowledge of display optical requirement definitions, characterization and performance optimization
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About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
$204,000/year to $281,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
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