AR/VR Hardware Engineering Jobs | Cutting-Edge Tech Roles

AR/VR hardware engineering jobs cover the physical systems that make immersive computing possible: optics, displays, sensors, electronics, and mechanical design. Teams building headsets and smart glasses need specialists who can translate ambitious product requirements into reliable devices that can be manufactured at scale. If you enjoy working close to the metal—prototypes, test rigs, and tight cross-functional loops—hardware roles in XR can be a great fit.

Depending on the focus area, you might work on optical systems (lenses, waveguides, pancake optics), display modules, camera and sensor stacks for inside‑out tracking, IMUs, depth sensing, audio, thermal solutions, or industrial design constraints. Hardware engineers often collaborate with firmware and perception teams, because tracking quality and latency are shared outcomes across sensors, calibration, and software pipelines. You may also interact with manufacturing, reliability, and supply chain partners to move from prototype to production.

Common responsibilities include component selection, mechanical or electrical integration, tolerance analysis, thermal and power budgeting, test and validation planning, and failure analysis. For optics-heavy roles, you may work with measurement setups, calibration methods, and optical simulation or characterization. For camera and sensor roles, you may evaluate image quality, synchronize sensors, and design fixtures that keep calibration stable over time and temperature.

Many XR hardware postings look for experience with consumer electronics, robotics, or wearable devices, plus comfort with lab tools and structured experimentation. Strong candidates can communicate tradeoffs clearly—weight versus battery, FOV versus distortion, brightness versus power—and can work effectively with software teams that depend on stable, predictable hardware behavior. If you are searching for AR/VR hardware jobs, keywords like optics, display, sensors, camera, tracking, mechanical design, electrical engineering, and validation are good signals.

With salary only80 jobs

XR Technical Lead, AI Interactions - San Jose or Mountain View

Google

San Jose, USA • Mountain View, USA

197k-291k $

Posted 1 month ago

Software Engineer, Spectacles Full Stack, Level 5

Snap Inc.

Bellevue, USA • Los Angeles, USA • San Francisco, USA

209k-313k $

Posted 1 month ago

CoreOS Firmware Engineer

Software Engineer, OS

Software Engineer, Spectacles Full Stack, Level 4

Snap Inc.

Bellevue, USA

157k-235k $

Posted 1 month ago

AR/VR UI Frameworks Engineering Manager - Vision Products Group

Apple

Cupertino, US

178k-308k $

Posted 1 month ago

Senior Privacy Engineer, Android, Extended Reality/AR/VR

Google

San Jose, CA, USA • Seattle, WA, USA

166k-244k $

Posted 1 month ago

Engineering Manager, Computer Vision Data and Ground Truth Tools

Magic Leap

Sunnyvale, USA • Zurich, Switzerland

190k-220k $

Posted 1 month ago

Computer Vision Engineer

Snap Inc.

London, UK

Posted 1 month ago

Sensors Software Engineer

Qualcomm

Santa Clara, United States of America • San Diego, United States of America

94k-166k $

Posted 1 month ago

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