Engineering Manager, RL - Operating Systems

The RL organization's mission is to give people the tools to feel connected anytime, anywhere. We create new, category-defining consumer hardware and software that are immersive, social, and increase the depth of people's connections. The team is a diverse group of problem solvers, inventors, and proven visionaries who are relentless about transforming everyday occurrences into rich experiences that have the potential to improve the way billions of people live.

The ideal candidate has proven design and build skills, passion for low-level systems software and device driver programming, hands-on experience working on Operating Systems and experience with shipping hardware/software products. You are the kind of leader who has expertise building and managing high performance teams creating high reliable, robust, and performant systems software.

You have hands-on experience leading teams shipping new hardware and software systems and have significant experience debugging and repairing complex, multi-component system level issues using a variety of OS and frameworks level debugging tools.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of software engineers that builds the low level OS stack for Facebook's AR/VR device family.
• Build and lead team designing, implementing, debugging complex, system-level, multi-component issues that typically span across multiple layers from kernel to application.
• Manage engineers and help them develop their careers, assigning them to projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional hardware and software engineering teams.
• Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement.
• Set clear expectations and create a positive work environment based on accountability, in collaboration with the engineering and management teams.
• Work closely with dedicated recruiting staff to expand the team, including sourcing candidates, interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and on-boarding new employees.
• Build and lead team designing and implementing device and bus drivers that operate efficiently in a constrained environment yet when pressed can efficiently deliver large volumes of data with low-latency and high-bandwidth.
• Understand software components from multiple partner teams, lead the integration of those components into the unified product code base, and drive their continued development.