ML Systems Engineer, Recommendation Engines

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in Menlo Park, CA seeks a distinguished Software Engineer with deep ML expertise to drive advances across AI-powered products. You will operate at the intersection of foundational ML research and production systems, shaping ML infrastructure and modeling standards at global scale.

You will lead the design of training pipelines, inference platforms, and feature engineering efforts, collaborating with research, infra, and product teams to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical architecture of critical ML systems, including model training pipelines, inference infrastructure, and feature engineering platforms, ensuring reliability and scalability across billions of users
• Identify and solve the most complex ML systems challenges across multiple product areas, including issues that span model quality, training efficiency, serving latency, and data integrity
• Develop and establish extensible ML frameworks, modeling standards, and engineering practices that drive consistency and velocity across multiple engineering organizations
• Lead cross-functional technical strategy for machine learning initiatives, aligning research, infrastructure, and product teams around multi-year roadmaps that balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural health
• Apply AI-native workflows and tooling as a force multiplier to accelerate model development cycles, automate evaluation pipelines, and expand the scope of what engineering teams can deliver
• Define new metrics and data-driven decision-making principles for long-term ML projects, connecting model performance signals to organization-level business outcomes

Skills

Machine learning systems

Distributed systems

Model training pipelines

Inference infrastructure

Feature engineering

Architectural leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Meta in Menlo Park, CA seeks a distinguished Software Engineer with deep ML expertise to drive advances across AI-powered products. You will operate at the intersection of foundational ML research and production systems, shaping ML infrastructure and modeling standards at global scale.

You will lead the design of training pipelines, inference platforms, and feature engineering efforts, collaborating with research, infra, and product teams to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions.