Job Description

Research Scientist, Reconstruction (PhD University Grad)

Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) London is looking for a Research Scientist with a passion for real-time computer vision and VR/AR to help define and build the next generation of augmented and virtual reality systems. Within the Facebook Reality Labs Surreal Vision team, this role focuses on formulating a new generation of end-to-end real-time 3D scene understanding systems working across novel mobile sensor design, sensor fusion, state estimation, computer vision, large-scale reconstruction and localization, as well as large-scale online inference and optimization.

• Plan and execute cutting-edge development to advance the state of the art in machine perception, mapping, reconstruction and localization, as well as 3D scene understanding across optical/inertial/acoustic sensing systems
• Collaborate with other researchers and engineers across both machine and human perception teams at Facebook to develop experiments, prototypes, and concepts that advance the state-of-the-art in AR/VR systems
• Work with the team to help design, setup, and run practical experiments and prototype systems related to large-scale long-duration sensing and machine reasoning

• Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree or completing a postdoctoral assignment in the field of computer science, computer vision, robotics or similar
• 3 or more years C++ experience, with knowledge of modern C++ features
• OpenGL and/or Direct3D graphics programming experience
• Deep problem solving and optimization ability
• Must be available to start employment on or after November 1, 2018
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
• Interpersonal experience: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration

• Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)
• Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV or SIGGRAPH
• GPU programming experience - CUDA or OpenCL

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