Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses through platforms like Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
$213,000 - $293,000
Machine Learning
Principal Software Engineer
In-Person
12+ years of experience
AI

Description For Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

Meta is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer for a technical leadership position to join their engineering team. This role combines deep technical expertise in machine learning with strategic leadership responsibilities. The ideal candidate will work on some of the most exciting and massive social data and prediction problems that exist on the web, including payment fraud, click-through rate prediction, search ranking, and recommendation systems.

The position offers a competitive compensation package ranging from $213,000 to $293,000 annually, plus bonus and equity opportunities. As a technical leader, you'll be responsible for driving the team's technical direction, developing highly scalable machine learning solutions, and influencing cross-functional initiatives that have industry-wide impact.

The role requires a strong background in machine learning with at least 12 years of programming experience and 8+ years specifically in ML-related areas. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies and frameworks, adapting machine learning methods to modern parallel environments including distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU systems.

At Meta, you'll be part of a company that's shaping the future of social technology, moving beyond traditional 2D screens toward immersive experiences in augmented and virtual reality. You'll have the opportunity to work on projects that affect billions of users across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.

The ideal candidate will combine technical excellence with leadership skills, being able to mentor senior engineers, drive multi-year roadmaps, and collaborate effectively with organization leaders. You'll be expected to identify new opportunities, influence prioritization, and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to various stakeholders.

This role offers the chance to work on challenging problems at an unprecedented scale, with access to some of the largest and most interesting datasets in the world. You'll be part of Meta's mission to help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses, while pushing the boundaries of what's possible in social technology.

Meta provides a comprehensive benefits package and is committed to providing an inclusive work environment. They actively support diversity and equal employment opportunity, making this an excellent opportunity for candidates looking to make a significant impact in the field of machine learning while working at one of the world's leading technology companies.

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Responsibilities For Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

  • Drive the team's goals & technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
  • Effectively communicate complex features & 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 (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

Python
Java
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
  • Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
  • Experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
  • Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • 12+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java or R) with technical background
  • 8+ years of experience in machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligence

Benefits For Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

Medical Insurance
Equity
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Medical Benefits

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