At Meta’s Reality Labs Research, our goal is to make world-class consumer virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. Come work alongside industry-leading scientists and engineers to create the technology that makes MR, VR, and AR pervasive and universal. Join the adventure of a lifetime as we make science fiction real and change the world. The Display Systems Research (DSR) team is focused on passing the visual Turing test in AR/MR: making head-mounted displays (HMDs) indistinguishable from reality. While we ultimately aim to advance visual experiences, we remain grounded in practical system architectures. Our core research involves the identification and construction of new eyeglasses-form-factor devices — informed by human vision science — that cohesively integrate novel display and sensing technologies. Recent publications and demos include varifocal displays, near-eye holographic displays, understanding geometric distortions in HMDs, reprojection-free light field passthrough, reverse passthrough, and more. We are seeking Research Scientists to help develop augmented reality (AR) glasses. This role will use skills in optical system design and modeling, knowledge of a wide variety of optical components and technologies, research and problem-solving skills, and fabrication and prototyping experience to design, develop, and construct initial AR display prototypes around novel optical architectures. And will work in a small AR display incubation team and collaborate with a large and diverse set of scientists and engineers in the greater Reality Labs organization. An ideal candidate learns new areas of optics quickly, is comfortable pivoting and adapting to the various needs of projects, enjoys iterating quickly, should be comfortable working on and solving challenging problems with minimal guidance, including those in which there is no clear initial path, while seeking help independently among internal and external resources. And is detail-oriented and data-driven, with a track record of high quality results when tackling challenging optics problems.