Software Engineer III 
12 Months 
Burlingame CA
 
Summary:

• Client is looking for Software Engineers to support our engineering teams as we build towards our goal of helping more people around the world come together and connect through world-class Augmented and Mixed Reality hardware and software. With global departments dedicated to AR/MR research, computer vision, haptics, social interaction, and more, we are committed to driving the state-of-the-art forward through relentless innovation. AR and MR potential to change the world is immense -- and we're just getting started.
• Our XR Tech organization is focused on cutting edge research and development of machine perception technologies from early concepts to production level across all of client’s AR/MR products and surfaces. These include Quest products, Meta Glasses and Family of Apps (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp). We develop core capabilities across a range of product domains including Spatial AI, Avatars, AR/MR remote presence/calling, AR Commerce, AR Sharing and more.
• In this role, you will be building distributed systems that are scalable and adaptive to various data acquisition and ground truth data generation processes. We're addressing a variety of technical challenges in the areas of providing high-quality ground truth data that enable the training and evaluation of various ML models, including depth estimation, object detection, scene understanding, 3D reconstruction, SLAM tracking and occlusion modeling. Do you want to help build a scalable end-to-end pipeline that brings real-world AI to billions of people? We encourage you to apply and join us!

 
Software Engineer – Responsibilities:

• Design core, backend software components
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Maintain, analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system infrastructure
• Establish self as an owner of a particular component, feature or system with expert end-to-end understanding
• Successfully completes projects at large scope while maintaining a consistent high level of productivity

 
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with distributed systems development
• Experience maintaining, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of backend systems
• Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
• Proficient with Python, C/C++ or Hack programming languages

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• MSc or PhD degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Experience building and shipping high quality work and achieving high reliability
• Experience owning a component or feature a distributed system
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications

 
Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

• Proficient with Python, C/C++ or Hack programming languages,
• Experience with distributed systems development
• Experience maintaining, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of backend systems

 
Good to have skills:

• Experience building and shipping high quality work and achieving high reliability
• Experience owning a component or feature a distributed system
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications

 
Years of experience needed:

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field and 2+ years of industrial experience

 
Typical Day in the Role:

• Meeting with team members on projects, coding and code-reviewing, writing design docs, brainstorming and presenting designs and maintaining the production systems.

 
How will performance be measured:

• Performance assessment every 6 months with self-assessment and peer feedback

Interview Process/Format:

• 2~3 technical interviews
• coding evaluation
• behavioral/prev exp discussion

  

 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $80.00/hr.