SW Specialist - Wearables Interfaces Engineering

As a SW Specialist on the Wearables Interfaces Engineering team, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for optimizing and integrating platform-level software that runs atop Meta's wearable device stack. Working closely with the Core OS team, you will bridge the gap between operating system capabilities and the application/experience layers. This position requires a holistic view across firmware, OS interfaces, frameworks, middleware, and applications to ensure seamless platform integration and optimal device performance. You will drive cross-functional system design decisions, resolve complex multi-component issues, and set the technical direction for how platform software leverages Core OS to deliver immersive user experiences.

SW Specialist - Wearables Interfaces Engineering Responsibilities:

• Platform Architecture & Integration: Drive platform software architecture for wearable devices, ensuring coherent integration across Core OS interfaces, frameworks, middleware, and application layers
• Cross-Stack Technical Leadership: Lead system-level initiatives that span OS-to-application boundaries, optimizing frameworks, system services, and applications for performance, reliability, and power efficiency
• End-to-End System Debugging: Own resolution of complex, ambiguous issues that span multiple components—OS interfaces, drivers, frameworks, and application software—identifying root causes and driving fixes across teams including Core OS
• System Performance & Optimization: Analyze and optimize platform-level performance, latency, memory usage, and power consumption across the framework and application stack
• Core OS Partnership: Collaborate with the Core OS team to define platform requirements, influence OS roadmaps, and ensure platform needs are met by underlying OS capabilities
• System Health & Reliability: Establish metrics, monitoring, and frameworks to maintain overall system health and reliability for platform software across the wearables portfolio
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Core OS, hardware, firmware, connectivity, multimedia, and product teams to align technical strategies and resolve dependencies
• Mentorship & Technical Excellence: Mentor engineers across disciplines, fostering systems thinking and best practices for cross-stack development
• Documentation & Communication: Communicate platform architecture decisions, integration strategies, and technical trade-offs to stakeholders at all levels clearly and concisely

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Expert-level understanding of platform architecture, including interactions between OS (Linux/Android), system services, frameworks, and application software
• Proven track record of leading complex platform integration efforts across OS, frameworks, and application teams
• Strong experience with system-level debugging tools and methodologies (system traces, performance profilers, memory analyzers)
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and/or Java/Kotlin with experience debugging across multiple layers of the stack
• Familiarity with hardware interfaces and how they surface through OS/driver layers to platform software
• Deep understanding of power management, thermal constraints, and performance optimization at the platform level
• Experience applying analytical and problem-solving approaches to complex systems issues and communicating technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to ship consumer electronics or embedded devices at scale
• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, platform software, or embedded systems development with increasing levels of system-level responsibility

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with wearable devices, AR/VR systems, or mobile device platforms
• Background in sensor systems, connectivity (BT/WiFi/Cellular), multimedia, or neural interfaces at the platform layer
• Experience working with Core OS teams to define requirements and influence OS capabilities
• Familiarity with hardware interfaces and how they surface through OS/driver layers to platform software
• Experience with Android platform internals, system services, or framework-level software
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Shell) for system automation and analysis
• Experience using AI-powered tools to optimize engineering workflows and drive measurable efficiency gains
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Track record of leading large-scale projects from concept through mass production

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 WhatsApp 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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Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

$219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.