UX Research Scientist, Reality Labs

UX Research Scientist, Reality Labs

At Meta Reality Labs (RL), we are inventing the future. We bring together a world-class team of researchers, developers, and engineers to build the future of connection within virtual and augmented reality. As a Research Scientist at RL, you are expected to have breadth and depth of scientific background in one or more areas such as human perception, cognition, motor control and movement. You will be leveraging this background in service of defining, assessing and enhancing the form, function and dynamics of our hardware and software. You will break down ambiguous problems and master research methods, including but not limited to, design of experiments, expert review, psychophysics & threshold detection, biomechanics & ergonomics, and safety research approaches. You will prove highly effective at driving insights into actionable product engineering & development outcomes and metrics and collaborate closely with cross functional partners to help shape critical product and technology decisions across the product design and development life cycle. You will work across multi-disciplinary hardware and software teams to push the boundaries of RL products while enhancing the value users get from these products. Ultimately, your expertise and ingenuity in research must do more than just contribute to knowledge and assessment you must also be skilled at driving measurable impact on the user experience of our products.

Responsibilities

• Develop frameworks that clearly define the trade space between user variables and technology variables and to develop methodologies for investigating novel challenges
• Collaborate and work with cross-functional product teams to identify user goals and envision needs and create research frameworks
• Develop ergonomic, perceptual, or psychological research studies by utilizing appropriate methods
• Develop and track metrics for quality of performing fundamental Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality tasks
• Investigate effects of human multisensory interactions, attention, and control dynamics on performance and safety of doing such tasks
• Analyze rich and multidimensional data, develop descriptive and analytical models, and shape actionable insights from research findings
• Effectively communicate outcomes and insights from studies, support decision-making and help setting specifications for Reality Labs hardware and software products, and drive measurable impact on the user experience
• Create close partnerships with a variety of leadership, research and product stakeholders to ensure a broad understanding of the product needs and priorities while driving UX goals
• Define metrics that establish overall system requirements and performance
• Collaborate with other researchers and engineers across teams at Meta to develop experiments, prototypes, and concepts that advance the state-of-the-art in AR / VR systems
• Improve data analysis pipelines with an emphasis on scalability and stability of various deployed systems

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications