Senior Systems ML Engineer - High-Performance AI Infra

Meta; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

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Job summary

Meta is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Systems ML Engineering team, focused on building and optimizing the machine learning infrastructure that powers Meta's products at massive scale. In this role, you will design and develop high-performance ML systems, working across the full stack from model training and inference pipelines to hardware-aware optimizations.

You will collaborate with researchers, platform engineers, and product teams to accelerate ML workloads and improve the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of software engineering with a focus on ML systems, AI infrastructure, or high-performance computing.
• Experience developing and optimizing ML training or inference pipelines using frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience with distributed computing architectures and large-scale systems design for ML workloads.
• Experience programming in C++ and Python for performance-critical systems.
• Experience with profiling and performance analysis tools to identify bottlenecks in ML or compute-intensive systems.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

ML infrastructure design

Performance optimization

Profiling & benchmarking

Mentoring engineers

Technical design reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

C++

Python

CUDA

MLIR

LLVM

TVM

XLA

ROCm

Job description

Meta is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Systems ML Engineering team, focused on building and optimizing the machine learning infrastructure that powers Meta's products at massive scale. In this role, you will design and develop high-performance ML systems, working across the full stack from model training and inference pipelines to hardware-aware optimizations.

You will collaborate with researchers, platform engineers, and product teams to accelerate ML workloads and improve the