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Software Engineer

Meta
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Aug 2025
💰 $275,094/yr($264,514/yr – $275,094/yr)

About the role

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services 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. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.Software Engineer Responsibilities
  • Analyze, design, develop, and debug firmware for a wide variety of AR and VR consumer devices, including novel sensing and imaging systems, haptic devices, and audio prototypes.
  • Understand and implement power-management, boot loaders, scheduling, and RTOS.
  • Collaborate in a team environment across multiple, product focused, research, and engineering disciplines, making the architectural tradeoffs required to rapidly deliver firmware solutions.
  • Support all phases of SoC/ASIC development – including early architecture requirements definition for custom silicon, firmware architecture, implementation, simulation, FPGA debug, chip bring up and support systems and software teams on algorithm development on validated systems.
  • Understand and drive implementation of FW development good practices across teams and projects.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered
    or in a computer-related occupation
  • Experience must include 5 years of experience in the following:
  • 1. Software design and programming in C/C++ for development, debugging, testing and performance analysis
  • 2. Methods of designing experiments to diagnose embedded hardware and firmware problems
  • 3. Producing production quality, fail-safe firmware for low-power real-time system control
  • 4. Peripherals such as USB, SPI, MIPI CSI/DSI, I2C, UART, GPIO
  • 5. Analyzing hardware and power consumption
  • 6. Device documentation and translate that information into software solutions
  • 7. Cross multi-disciplinary boundaries to drive system solutions
  • 8. Embedded processors including ARM Cortex M0/M3/M4 architecture and boot mechanism, interrupt priorities and experience with configuring peripherals
  • 9. Instrumentation including oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers for debugging embedded systems at HW level
  • 10. Hardware, clock-level issues, bridges, delays, interrupts, clock gating, polling
For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. 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.
US$264,514/year to US$275,094/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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may v

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