Image Quality Engineer

At Meta Reality Labs, we are developing the future of Wearables and Mixed Reality products. As a Display Image Quality Engineer in our AR organization, you will be involved in the simulation and validation of novel display architectures and control systems to ensure high-quality visual experience across a vast range of environments and AR experiences. As part of this role, you will bring together and expand upon the disparate simulation models of the component parts of our image chain, and employ this end-to-end pipeline in a continuous feedback loop to optimize product image quality requirements against system constraints.

This work involves working closely with a highly interdisciplinary team of display, software, silicon, and metrology engineers, as well as with scientists with backgrounds in optics, graphics and and human perception.Image Quality Engineer Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with silicon, graphics, perception and display Hardware teams to implement end-to-end display pipeline and optical models to simulate end-to-end system performance.
• Implement system simulations of pipeline components and algorithms using a mixture of MATLAB and Python
• Use simulation results to propose and verify improvements to aspects of the pipeline via modeling and human factors testing
• Perform tradeoff analyses against visual quality metrics

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors in image processing or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in research, advanced optics development, or equivalent experience
• Experience with MATLAB
• Experience in taking image-based (e.g. camera, printer, display) products to market
• Understanding of typical image processing algorithms and Software/Hardware implementation through the entire pipeline
• Experience in managing production-level tradeoffs in typical image pipelines
• Experience in working as part of a cross-functional team and familiarity with typical software/hardware design processes

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in research, advanced optics development, or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of the human visual system and color science
• Experience in human factors testing and psychometric testing paradigms
• Experience in bringing up real-world display technologies or optical systems, especially AR/VR
• Experience with C/C++, C#, and/or Python

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$139,000/year to $200,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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