Software Engineer - Technical Leadership (ML)

Meta; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Software Engineer with expertise in Machine Learning to lead technical initiatives and drive impactful projects. This role involves developing scalable classifiers and tools, collaborating with leaders across the organization, and adapting machine learning methods for modern environments. Join a forward-thinking company that is at the forefront of social technology, creating immersive experiences and connecting communities globally. If you're passionate about innovation and making a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience leading impactful projects and mentoring senior engineers.
• Proven ability to communicate across functions and drive solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction and goals for the engineering team.
• Develop scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

C++

Java

R

NLP

Data Mining

Pattern Recognition

Recommendation Systems

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Hadoop

HBase

Spark

MapReduce

Job description

Software Engineer - Technical Leadership (ML)

Meta is seeking Machine Learning Leaders to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have industry experience working on a range of classification and optimization problems like payment fraud, click-through rate prediction, click-fraud detection, search ranking, text/sentiment classification, collaborative filtering/recommendation, or spam detection. The position will involve taking these skills and applying them to some of the most exciting and massive social data and prediction problems that exist on the web.

Responsibilities

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

Minimum Qualifications

1. Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact.
2. Vast experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
3. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long term vision.
4. Significant experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java, or R) with a technical background.
5. Significant experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations.
6. Significant experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining, or artificial intelligence.

Preferred Qualifications

1. B.S. Computer Science or related technical field.
2. Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of product.
3. Experience with Hadoop/HBase/Pig or MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable/Hive/Spark.

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.

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