Lead Systems Engineer - Compute and Perception

Job Description

• Involved in capturing stakeholder needs and requirements across the product life cycle, translating them into system needs and requirements, and validating performance targets, in cooperation with other teams.
• Responsible for drafting and selecting innovative compute and perception architectures to satisfy often novel and challenging requirement sets, in collaboration with other teams.
• Responsible for defining modules, functions and interfaces, and performing requirements analysis, functional allocation, tradeoff/impact/sensitivity/risk analyses, modeling and simulations, and other evaluations to support requirement and architecture decisions, often entailing building custom tools.
• Responsible for requirements and configuration management in collaboration with program management, to ensure alignment in the development of Magic Leap’s products.
• Involved in defining and supporting the execution of verification and validation plans for system requirements, in collaboration with test and quality teams.
• Responsible for supporting system realization and system integration of the compute architecture, coordinating cross-team issues and risk resolution, and end-to-end optimization as a system/architecture expert.
• Involved in research and development of compute and perception systems, including investigation of broad and emerging technology spaces to meet design objectives.
• Involved in prototyping hardware and software components for technology exploration, demonstrations, and simulations.

• 7+ years of industry or research experience with computer systems and computer vision technology, preferably in AR/VR/MR applications, and involvement in the design and development of hardware-software systems.
• Strong understanding of computer vision, with expertise in a selection of the following: SLAM, VIO, SFM, object detection/recognition, 3-D reconstruction, hand tracking, eye tracking, localization, or related.
• Strong foundation in computer architecture and engineering, with expertise in a selection of the following: processor design, cache layout, memory organization, load balancing, embedded systems design, integrated circuits design and testing, embedded systems, or related.
• Strong understanding of user, software, algorithmic and hardware constraints and their impacts on computer systems and architecture optimizations.
• Proficient in one or more programming or hardware description languages, including C, C++, Python, VHDL, Verilog, or related.
• A holistic thinker and problem solver, with experience in Systems Engineering functional areas including requirements engineering, architecture definition, integration, verification and validation.
• Experience in data analysis, statistics and visualization, and effectively summarizing and communicating results.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a track record of collaborating across diverse teams; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated, self-organized, proactive and comfortable working in very dynamic environments.

• M.S (or higher) degree in Computer/Electrical/Mechatronics Engineering or related, plus 7 or more years of progressive industry experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• All your information will be kept confidential according to Equal Employment Opportunities guidelines.

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