Product Design Engineer

Meta

full-time

Posted: October 9, 2025

Number of Vacancies: 1

Job Description

At Reality Labs we aim to bring together cross-disciplinary minds in one place to deliver on our mission: build tools that help people feel connected, anytime, anywhere. As a Product Design Engineer, you will take a critical role in developing hardware systems for VR, AR, or New Technology Initiatives. You will become part of a team exploring developing concepts through prototyping and into mass-production consumer electronics. You will work as part of a cross functional team requiring collaboration in domains other than mechanical engineering. Our teams support mechanical engineering fundamentals, prototyping skills, CAD fluency, manufacturing process knowledge, and experience designing consumer electronics.

Locations

  • Sunnyvale, CA, US

Salary

Salary not disclosed

Estimated Salary Rangehigh confidence

160,000 - 240,000 USD / yearly

Source: ai estimated

* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.

Skills Required

  • CAD fluencyintermediate
  • Design for Manufacturability (DFM)advanced
  • Design for Assembly (DFA)advanced
  • statistical tolerance analysisadvanced
  • functional dimensioningintermediate
  • geometric tolerancingintermediate
  • 3D/2D CADintermediate
  • material properties knowledge (plastics, metal, adhesive, glass)intermediate
  • Testing and analysis (FEA, Simulation, Design of Experiments)advanced
  • high-volume manufacturing techniques (stamping, machining, injection molding)advanced
  • NXintermediate
  • cosmetic surface treatmentsintermediate
  • Mandarin or Cantonese language skillsbeginner
  • designing for human factorsintermediate

Required Qualifications

  • BS in Mechanical Engineering (degree)
  • 8+ years of industry experience in mechanical design (experience)
  • MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering (degree)
  • 10+ years of product design and development experience of handheld and/or wearable electronics for high volume manufacturing, including full systems ownership (experience)
  • Experience designing handheld and wearable electronics for high volume manufacturing (experience)
  • Experience with products cosmetic surface treatments and interfacing with industrial design teams (experience)

Responsibilities

  • Lead the mechanical design for a particular component, feature or system while having end-to-end product development understanding
  • Contribute to mechanical solutions as part of a highly cross-functional team
  • Model, build, test, and refine prototypes and characterization test systems
  • Work across the full product development cycle, from concept inception to shipping product
  • Collaborate and manage work with Asia-based Supply Chain
  • Push state-of-the-art technologies and approaches to solving complex mechanical problems while working with cross functional technical teams
  • Travel to external vendors up to 20%

Benefits

  • bonus: Bonus included in compensation
  • equity: Equity included in compensation
  • general: Additional benefits offered by Meta (details available on Meta's benefits page)

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