Principal AI Product Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Meta; United States; Remote; USD 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Software Engineer - Product (Technical Leadership) to guide multi-team efforts in building cutting-edge AI-powered products across mobile and web platforms.

The role emphasizes leading a world-class engineering and research team, setting long-term technical vision, and collaborating with executives to shape product strategy and performance. The candidate should have strong leadership and broad experience in scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building large-scale applications or 12+ years with PhD.
• Experience mentoring executive stakeholders and driving cross-functional solutions.
• Ability to plan multi-year roadmaps aligning short-term work with long-term mission.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that improve efficiency across your larger organization
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to assess and develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to improve team and organizational performance
• Identify opportunities for the larger organization and influence staffing/prioritization of ideas
• Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues and reduce tech debt

Skills

Mentoring executives

Data-driven problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication of complex features

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

PhD preferred

Tools

C/C++/Java/Swift/Kotlin

Python/JavaScript/Hack

Job description

Meta in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Software Engineer - Product (Technical Leadership) to guide multi-team efforts in building cutting-edge AI-powered products across mobile and web platforms.

The role emphasizes leading a world-class engineering and research team, setting long-term technical vision, and collaborating with executives to shape product strategy and performance. The candidate should have strong leadership and broad experience in scalable systems.