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At Facebook Reality Labs Research, we’re developing the future of virtual and augmented reality. We are looking for an experienced leader to manage and continue to build a world-class computer vision and machine perception team dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art of human understanding, including human pose estimation, hand-object interaction, action recognition, and human-computer interaction. You will be responsible for recruiting, career growth, organizational health, guiding overall direction, and supporting multiple teams and projects working in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment.Research Scientist Manager, Input & Action Recognition Responsibilities

• Build, lead, mentor, inspire, and enable a world-class machine perception team


• Work with leadership, computer vision researchers, and cross-functional teams to develop and pursue a vision for human understanding


• Enable a team to research and develop advanced computer vision and machine perception technologies, including hand pose estimation, egocentric body pose estimation, object pose estimation, and action recognition


• Explore the problem and solution space through creating proofs of experience and getting feedback from user research


• Establish a research/incubation/productization roadmap and strategy


• Collaborate and work across teams to develop concepts that advance the entire product pipeline (hardware, software, data collection, machine learning, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or related field


• Experience in computer vision, computer graphics or human-computer interaction research


• Experience of building and managing high-performance teams in multi-disciplinary global organizations at the intersection of research and product


• Technical knowledge in machine learning, optimization and state estimation

Preferred Qualifications

• Research experience in action recognition and action understanding in computer vision or robotics


• Experience as lead investigator for which results were achieved or established


• Subject matter expert demonstrated through publications, patents, and shipped products


• Experience leading a team that transferred technology from research in computer vision, machine perception or machine learning into a shipping product


• Experience managing joint hardware-software development and associated rapid prototyping


• Mentorship experience with experience leading an organization at various experience levels ranging from interns to research scientists

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