AI Engineer, Specialist - VR - (Technical Leadership)

Meta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is hiring an AI Engineer, Specialist - VR (Technical Leadership) to build and apply scalable machine learning for immersive VR experiences and Meta platforms. You will develop highly scalable algorithms, collect requirements, and deliver production code in close partnership with the engineering team.

The role involves adapting ML approaches to distributed environments, training ranking models, and researching techniques to improve efficiency and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience with ML research/work, NLP, reinforcement learning, deep learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, signal processing, data mining, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, or computer vision.
• Experience coding in Java, C++, Perl, PHP, or Python.
• Experience with large-scale model training, and evaluating speech-based or other ML systems.
• Experience working cross-functionally and communicating across teams.
• Experience building scalable ML models in crawling, indexing, extraction, retrieval, ranking, recommendations, measurement, tooling, evaluation, query understanding, planning, vector databases, or embeddings.
• Experience evaluating alternative technical solutions by analyzing tradeoffs in performance, cost, and maintainability.
• Experience taking ideas from research to production.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly scalable algorithms using state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies.
• Suggest, collect, and synthesize requirements, and build an effective feature roadmap.
• Deliver production code in close partnership with the engineering team.
• Adapt standard machine learning approaches to modern parallel environments, including distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU.
• Perform team-specific responsibilities that vary by team.
• Research, design, and develop new algorithms and techniques to improve efficiency and performance across Meta platforms.
• Gather data for machine learning training.
• Train ranking models and run experiments.
• Identify potential improvements in Meta software and technology products.
• Research and present how engineering efforts may affect Meta’s market standing from economic and game-theoretic perspectives.
• Develop scalable classifiers and tools using machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models.

Skills

NLP

Deep Learning

Reinforcement learning

Recommendation systems

Pattern recognition

Data mining

Information retrieval

Computer vision

AI

Tools

Java

C++

Perl

PHP

Python

Job description

Meta is hiring an AI Engineer, Specialist - VR (Technical Leadership) to build and apply scalable machine learning for immersive VR experiences and Meta platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly scalable algorithms using state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies
• Suggest, collect, and synthesize requirements, and build an effective feature roadmap
• Deliver production code in close partnership with the engineering team
• Adapt standard machine learning approaches to modern parallel environments, including distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU
• Perform team-specific responsibilities that vary by team
• Research, design, and develop new algorithms and techniques to improve efficiency and performance across Meta platforms
• Gather data for machine learning training
• Train ranking models and run experiments
• Identify potential improvements in Meta software and technology products
• Research and present how engineering efforts may affect Meta’s market standing from economic and game-theoretic perspectives
• Develop scalable classifiers and tools using machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models

Requirements

• Experience with one or more of: machine learning research and/or work, NLP, reinforcement learning, deep learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, signal processing, data mining, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, or computer vision
• Experience coding in one or more of: Java, C++, Perl, PHP, or Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale model training, implementing algorithms, and evaluating speech-based systems
• Experience working and communicating cross-functionally
• Experience building scalable ML models in at least one area: Crawling, indexing, extraction, retrieval, ranking, recommendations, measurement, tooling, evaluation, query understanding, planning, vector databases, or embeddings
• Experience evaluating alternative technical solutions by analyzing tradeoffs in performance, cost, and maintainability
• Experience taking ideas from research to production

Key Technologies

• Machine learning, NLP, reinforcement learning, deep learning
• Recommendation systems, pattern recognition, signal processing, data mining
• Artificial intelligence, information retrieval, computer vision
• Java, C++, Perl, PHP, Python
• Distributed clusters, multicore SMP, GPU
• Ranking models, data regression, rules-based models

Location: New York, NY (onsite)
Salary: USD 219,000 - 301,000 per year