Software Engineering Manager - Avatar Visuals and Performance

$177,000 - $251,000/Yr

Meta - Burlingame, CA

Full-time - Manager

Burlingame, CA

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About the position

The Software Engineering Manager for Avatar Visuals and Performance at Meta is responsible for leading a team focused on developing and enhancing avatar systems that facilitate social presence in augmented and virtual reality environments. This role involves managing a team of engineers, driving innovation in avatar representation, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to influence strategy and execution. The manager will oversee the quality and fidelity of character representation, ensuring that avatars are expressive and enhance user connection in social experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of graphics and software engineers
• Own the quality and fidelity of character representation
• Innovate on the Avatar system to make it more flexible and support a larger variety of use-cases and environments
• Work with your team and cross-functional partners to define and influence strategy
• Drive technologies from research to product that make Avatars more expressive, increase user affinity, and enable deeper connection in social experiences
• Lead teams that deliver on multiple projects of increasing dependencies in an ambiguous or high-impact area
• Drive roadmap creation and execution
• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organizational level
• Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals
• Work effectively with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to set and achieve optimal outcomes
• Partner with leadership to influence and drive org design, contribution and prioritization

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with game engines (Unity, Unreal, etc) and the game development process
• Experience developing, debugging, and shipping live software that spans multiple platforms
• 5+ years of software engineering work experience including hands-on technical management
• 2+ years of technical people management experience

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with AR/VR products
• Experience with character animation, avatar systems, and human representation
• Experience with API design and implementation for realtime 3D applications
• Experience with game engines graphics and computational geometry techniques

Benefits

• $177,000/year to $251,000/year salary
• Bonus
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package