Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer announced that he will step down from his role as of 2022. Schroepfer will transition to a part-time role with the company. In 2022, he will be replaced as CTO by Andrew Bosworth, who is currently the head of Facebook’s hardware division.
In 2022, Schroepfer will become the first Senior Fellow at Facebook, working on initiatives such as recruiting and developing technical talent and fostering the company's artificial intelligence investments in critical technologies like PyTorch. The effective date of the transition and the compensation terms of such arrangement have not yet been determined. Schroepfer wrote on his Facebook profile that he would use his extra time for philanthropy and spending time with family.
Bosworth created Facebook’s AR/VR organisation, which was renamed Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) in 2020, where he drives all of Facebook’s efforts in augmented reality, virtual reality and consumer hardware across Oculus, Portal, and Facebook Reality Labs Research. These contributions are foundational components of Facebook’s broader efforts to help build what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls the "metaverse", a space in virtual reality where people can meet.
Bosworth will continue to lead Reality Labs as CTO, along with other hardware development teams.
