Senior Multimodal AI Engineer — Multimedia Pipelines

Meta; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a senior engineer for Applied AI to own multimodal data production, evaluation, and model development across image, video, audio, and speech. You will decide what to measure, build scalable pipelines, and drive quality across partner teams.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to hiring, and shape standards for evaluation and production readiness, working with research, training, and engineering partners to deliver impactful results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of programming in a relevant language or 4+ years with a PhD.
• 3+ years building ML systems in production or research.
• Strong Python and PyTorch experience.
• Experience with speech, audio, or music ML (ASR, TTS, codecs, MUSIC IR).
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines and distributed training.
• Track record translating research ideas into working, measurable systems.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for a modality or capability area.
• Determine investments and define success with tradeoffs.
• Drive direction across partner teams beyond own team.
• Design and build agentic workflows and pipelines with human-in-the-loop features.
• Own data pipelines: ingestion, filtering, pseudo-labeling, captioning, provenance tracking.
• Build evaluation infrastructure: objective metrics and human listening tests.
• Improve training efficiency and reliability: distributed training, GPU utilization, retraining
• Reproduce and extend state-of-the-art research by implementing new methods from papers.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to hiring, raise evaluation and quality standards.
• Build and train generative and representation models for speech, sound, and music.

Skills

Strong Python

PyTorch

Multimodal ML

Distributed training

Data pipelines

Model evaluation

Research-to-prod

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related field

PhD in a relevant field (optional)

Tools

Git

Job description

Meta is seeking a senior engineer for Applied AI to own multimodal data production, evaluation, and model development across image, video, audio, and speech. You will decide what to measure, build scalable pipelines, and drive quality across partner teams.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to hiring, and shape standards for evaluation and production readiness, working with research, training, and engineering partners to deliver impactful results.