Silicon Power Architect, Reality Labs

Reality Labs focuses on delivering Meta's vision through creating advanced AI-enabled wearables. The compute performance and power efficiency requirements of wearables require custom silicon. Reality Labs Silicon team is driving the driving the industry forward with innovative work in AI, augmented reality, computer vision, machine learning, graphics, displays, and sensors. Our chips will enable wearable devices where our real and virtual worlds will mix and match throughout the day. We believe the only way to achieve our goals is to look at the entire stack, from transistors, through architecture, firmware, and algorithms.
We are seeking a Silicon Power Architect to lead the development of next-generation silicon solutions for wearables. This role requires experience in low-power design techniques, power estimation, and convergence tool flows and management.
Silicon Power Architect, Reality Labs Responsibilities
Model and own use-case power for custom silicon by working closely with the systems team
Influence the overall SOC IP's power requirements, including power states, high-level power tree, and power sequence requirements
Work closely with architects of SOCs that optimize functions such as image compute and CPU/GPU workloads for our AR/VR products
Work closely with PMIC and systems teams on the overall SOC power requirements
Optimize the power architecture implementation to meet use case power goals
Work across disciplines, brainstorm big ideas, build new methodologies, prioritize and coordinate multiple initiatives based on impact and deadlines, drive a concept into a prototype and ultimately guide the transition into a high-volume consumer product
Understand the tradeoffs between general-purpose and custom compute mechanisms, be able to model data flows, and create detailed cost/benefit analysis
Work on post silicon model to hardware correlation

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or electrical engineering or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
6+ years of experience with production silicon including at least one product shipped
Experience with methods for partitioning a solution across hardware and software, digital, and other multi-disciplinary boundaries in a system solution
Experience in technology node scaling and projections
Experience in custom IP block power estimates
Experience of low power design principles across RTL, design and system level
Experience in evaluating architectural trade-offs of performance, power, and area
Experience employing scientific methods to debug, diagnose, and drive the resolution of cross-disciplinary system issues

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience collaborating and/or leading in a team environment
Familiarity with high-level modeling tools like Synopsys Platform Architect or virtual prototyping tools is a plus
Experience independently driving technical workstreams while coordinating deliverables across hardware, software, and systems teams
Experience in using AI agents for managing power tools and extracting results
Experience defining and scoping technical specifications for novel silicon architectures in consumer electronics where requirements are continuously evolving

MSEE or PhD equivalent:

Experience in top down high-level-model to HW power modeling of system use cases
Experience programming in C, C++, or Python
Results-oriented, self-motivated, proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking skills

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 Whats App 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.
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United States of America: $146,000/year to $209,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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