6 days ago
Base Salary
$154k - $217k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware and low-level software for resource-constrained hardware platforms.
- Develop and debug hardware abstraction layers, device drivers, and board support packages for custom silicon and peripherals.
- Integrate and configure real-time operating systems to meet latency, power, and memory requirements.
- Write unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop tests for firmware behavior.
- Add logging, metrics, and alerting to support observability and production reliability.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers, silicon teams, and product partners on firmware interfaces and cross-disciplinary dependencies.
- Optimize firmware for power consumption, memory footprint, and real-time execution performance.
- Own embedded software components end-to-end, including production issue response and code maintenance.
- Document firmware interfaces, bring-up procedures, and system behaviors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience; the degree must be completed before joining Meta.
- 5+ years of experience developing embedded firmware or low-level software in C or C++.
- Experience with RTOS, bare-metal programming, or embedded Linux environments.
- Experience developing or debugging device drivers, hardware abstraction layers, or board support packages for microcontrollers or SoCs.
- Experience writing automated tests and using JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or serial debuggers.
- Experience analyzing and optimizing embedded software for power, latency, or memory constraints.
- Preferred experience includes sensor fusion, signal conditioning, ADC/DAC interfacing, optical sensors, signal processing, embedded communication protocols, low-power analog sensors, and consumer electronics, wearable, or IoT devices.
- Preferred experience includes SPI, I2C, UART, USB, Bluetooth Low Energy, embedded cross-compilation, hardware-in-the-loop testing pipelines, and continuous integration workflows.
- Preferred qualifications include AI skill development, AI workflow integration, and responsible AI practices.
Benefits
- Annual base salary is $154,000/year to $217,000/year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.
About Meta
Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.