I already have a decent amount of experience with Linux internals, but my next project is far less ambitious in scope: simply reverse-engineering the Android-based firmware on a Huawei router and creating a drop-in replacement.

There is a lot of foundational hacking to be done around the Oculus standalone headsets. I don't believe the headsets have yet been cracked to unlock the bootloader to launch unsigned firmware.

It's probably worth moving discussion over to a forum and Wiki dedicated to such reverse engineering efforts (such as XDA developers) [1]

I do think that now is the time for such a project, and that crowdfunding has changed the economics to make this possible in a way that it never has been before.

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/mobile-vr/oculus-quest

Ping me at my HN username at gmail with your resume and I can forward it to oculus recruiters.