Audio Experiences Prototyper, Meta Reality Labs
Description
Meta's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Meta are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities — we're just getting started.
As an Audio Experiences Prototyper on the Audio Research team at Reality Labs, you’ll work with world-class scientists, designers, and engineers developing breakthrough technologies necessary for virtual, mixed, and augmented reality. You will develop spatial and perceptual audio experiences for Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality projects that demonstrate the full potential of 3D audio using future-state research technology. Your work will span multiple extended realities domains, both for audio-forward/audio-exclusive experiences and as part of larger multi-sensory and multi-modal experiences, which are used in user research studies, technology demos, and functional prototypes.
Responsibilities
Rapid prototyping of ideas into functional and interactive experiences, which may span software, hardware, and firmware capabilities
Collaboration with research scientists to transform experimental hardware, software, and services into prototype interactive experiences.
Implementation support for audio features within multi-modal experience development.
Minimum Qualifications
Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a highly collaborative, ambiguous environment
Proficiency with Unity 3D or Unreal
Proficiency with C#
Proficiency with Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), such as Ableton Live, ProTools, or Logic Pro
Bachelor degree in computer science, music & technology, acoustical engineering, or a related field
Desired Qualifications
Expert knowledge of Max/MSP
Expert knowledge of MATLAB scripting
Experience adapting and extending existing codebases
Demonstrated basic audio digital signal processing (DSP) experience
Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.
At Meta, we are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to connect people all over the world. That’s why it’s important that our workforce reflects the diversity of the people we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and points of view helps us make better decisions, build better products, and create better experiences for everyone.
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