Senior Systems ML Engineer — High-Performance AI Infra

Meta; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Systems ML Engineering team in Des Moines, IA. You will design and build high-performance ML infrastructure spanning training and inference pipelines, with a focus on scalability and hardware-aware optimizations.

You will work across the full stack with researchers, platform engineers, and product teams to accelerate workloads and improve the efficiency of AI systems serving billions of users.

Qualifications

• Design, build, and optimize large-scale ML training and inference systems, including distributed computing frameworks and hardware-accelerated pipelines
• Develop and maintain high-performance ML infrastructure components in C++ and Python, ensuring reliability, scalability, and low-latency execution
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the ML stack using profiling, instrumentation, and benchmarking tools
• Architect and evaluate trade-offs in ML system design, including memory bandwidth, compute utilization, and I/O throughput
• Partner with research and product teams to translate ML model requirements into efficient infrastructure solutions
• Define and track system-level metrics and service level objectives to maintain production reliability of ML serving systems
• Lead technical design reviews and contribute to engineering standards for ML systems across the organization
• Mentor other engineers on ML infrastructure best practices, debugging methodologies, and performance optimization techniques
• Drive adoption of AI-augmented development workflows to expand engineering productivity and broaden the scope of deliverables
• Contribute to staged rollout strategies using feature flagging and experimentation frameworks to safely deploy ML system changes

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize large-scale ML training and inference systems.
• Develop and maintain high-performance ML infrastructure components in C++ and Python.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the ML stack using profiling tools.
• Architect and evaluate trade-offs in ML system design, including memory bandwidth and I/O throughput.
• Collaborate with research and product teams to translate ML model requirements into infrastructure solutions.
• Lead technical design reviews and contribute to engineering standards for ML systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Profiling and optimization

System design

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

C++

Python

CUDA/ROCm

PyTorch/TensorFlow

Job description

Meta is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Systems ML Engineering team in Des Moines, IA. You will design and build high-performance ML infrastructure spanning training and inference pipelines, with a focus on scalability and hardware-aware optimizations.

You will work across the full stack with researchers, platform engineers, and product teams to accelerate workloads and improve the efficiency of AI systems serving billions of users.