Software Engineer (Leadership) - Machine Learning

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses through social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and immersive AR/VR experiences.
$180,000 - $300,000
Machine Learning
Staff Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
AI · AR/VR · Social Media

Description For Software Engineer (Leadership) - Machine Learning

Meta, the technology giant behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is seeking a Leadership-level Machine Learning Engineer to join their engineering team in London. This role represents an exceptional opportunity to work on some of the most exciting and massive social data and prediction problems on the web.

The ideal candidate will bring substantial experience in classification and optimization problems, including payment fraud, click-through rate prediction, search ranking, and recommendation systems. You'll be responsible for driving technical direction, developing scalable machine learning solutions, and leading cross-functional initiatives that impact millions of users globally.

As a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning, you'll work at the intersection of technical leadership and machine learning innovation. You'll be expected to mentor senior engineers, drive multi-year technical roadmaps, and adapt machine learning methods for modern parallel environments. The role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technology while helping shape Meta's future in both traditional social media and emerging AR/VR spaces.

Meta offers a unique environment where your work will directly impact billions of users worldwide. You'll be at the forefront of developing and implementing machine learning solutions that power some of the world's most widely-used social platforms. The company's commitment to pushing technological boundaries, especially in AR/VR, provides an exciting opportunity to help build the next evolution in social technology.

Last updated 2 months ago

Responsibilities For Software Engineer (Leadership) - Machine Learning

  • Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
  • Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
  • Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
  • Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
  • Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing new ideas
  • Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
  • Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models
  • Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments

Requirements For Software Engineer (Leadership) - Machine Learning

Python
Java
  • Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
  • Vast experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long term-vision
  • Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • Significant experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java, or R) with a technical background
  • Significant experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
  • Significant experience in machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining, or artificial intelligence
  • B.S. Computer Science or related technical field preferred
  • Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of product preferred
  • Experience with Hadoop/HBase/Pig or MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable/Hive/Spark preferred

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