Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses, including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and virtual/augmented reality products.
$213,000 - $293,000
Machine Learning
Principal Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
12+ years of experience
AI

Description For Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

Meta is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Technical Leader to join their engineering team, focusing on developing and scaling ML solutions across their suite of products including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on machine learning engineering, requiring both deep technical expertise and strong leadership capabilities.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in classification and optimization problems such as payment fraud, click-through rate prediction, click-fraud detection, search ranking, text/sentiment classification, collaborative filtering/recommendation, or spam detection. This position offers the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and massive-scale social data and prediction problems in the industry.

As a Technical Leader in Machine Learning, you'll be responsible for driving technical direction, mentoring senior engineers, and developing scalable ML solutions. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies and frameworks while leading cross-functional teams and influencing organization-wide technical decisions. The role requires a unique blend of technical depth in machine learning and distributed systems, combined with strategic thinking and leadership skills.

Meta offers a competitive compensation package including a base salary range of $213,000 to $293,000, plus bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. You'll be working at one of the world's leading tech companies, with access to massive datasets and the opportunity to impact billions of users. The position is available in both Bellevue, WA and Menlo Park, CA, offering the chance to work from major tech hubs alongside some of the industry's top talent.

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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 these 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 one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligence

Benefits For Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

Medical Insurance
Equity
  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits package

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