Job Title: Wearables Partner Engineer/Solutions Architect III 
Duration: 12 Months 
Location: Menlo Park CA
Travel up to 25% of the time (within US) - Bay area, New York, Seattle, where needed.
 
Wearables Partner Engineer - Job Description:

• Client Reality Labs (RL) is seeking a Partner Engineer for the Wearables platform. As a member of the Wearables team, you’ll help 3rd-party developers create integrations with our Wearables platforms.
• This role offers a unique opportunity to directly impact the quality of experiences enjoyed by AI glasses users.
• You will partner with external companies, helping them to execute their vision.
• You will serve as a critical feedback loop between external developers and internal teams, ensuring the platform evolves to maximize its value for both developers and end users.
• You possess a strong passion for wearable computing and can translate that enthusiasm to support and inspire a new pipeline of developers.
• You have strong communication and people skills, enabling you to collaborate cross-functionally and work side by side with developers every day.

 
Top 3 must-have HARD skills:    

• Client-side development of either Android or IOS
• AI Developer productivity poles
• Partner facing experience
• Communication skills - influencing and problem solving skills

 
Good to have skills:       

• Experience with wearables
• AI and ML principles and applications
• Developer relationship experience

 
Responsibilities:

• Inspire, educate and engage early developers on the opportunities in building for client’s portfolio of AI glasses.
• Work directly with 3rd-party developers to develop engaging integrations for our AI glasses.
• Develop knowledge in and integrate with 3rd-party applications and services.
• Raise the quality of integrations being developed on the platform.
• Identify opportunities for improving integrations and prototype solutions at scale.
• Collect valuable product feedback and feed it back into the program.
• Prototype potential future features to understand their value and complexity.
• Drive quality improvements through user research and other methods, working with design to create not just technical solutions but ones that are high quality for end users.

 
Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of related experience in a partner facing role.
• Hands-on UX experience and a passion for quality
• Experience with iOS or Android mobile development
• Familiarity with the landscape of AI developer productivity tools (e.g., code generation, testing, and debugging assistants)
• Proven communication, influencing and problem-solving skills
• Resourceful, action-orientated with experience to get things done independently and overcome obstacles by developing creative solutions to problems
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time
• Bachelor's Degree or higher

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Wearables technology
• Understanding of AI/ML principles and applications
• Proven track record with high standards of professionalism
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and experience to develop strong working relationships inside and outside Meta

 
Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects:            

• Adding additional support to wearables developer platform-

 
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition:

• Cutting edge technology - super h9igh priority for the company
• Development of a new platform
• Getting the opportunity to work on something that is just getting started

 
Typical Day in the Role:

• 40% spent meeting with partners- iterating on product
• 30% testing, debugging, identifying problems, areas of improvement, technical work
• 30% working with XFN to consolidate the feedback from partners and turning it into actionable tasks

 
How will performance be measured:    

• Performance is based on partner satisfaction, feedback sent into roadmap changes/product changes

 
(Technical review - coder pad test potential and one partnership and one hiring manager interview)
  
 
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: $ 60.00/hr.