Software Engineer, AI Specialist - Monetization (Technical Leadership)

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks a distinguished Software Engineer with deep AI focus to shape large-scale AI systems across Meta’s apps. You will lead architectural direction for training, inference, ranking and deployment pipelines, driving standards and long-term platform strategy.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with research and product teams, and advance responsible AI practices while delivering measurable improvements to product metrics at global scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience with AI in production.
• Experience delivering large-scale AI or ML systems at significant scale (training, serving, ranking, foundation models).
• Experience leading multi-team technical initiatives end-to-end with measurable outcomes.
• Ability to communicate complex AI designs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Identify and solve complex AI systems engineering challenges at global scale.
• Define extensible foundations and standards for AI model development and deployment pipelines.
• Drive the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for AI platform capabilities across teams.
• Evaluate emerging AI architectures and translate findings into actionable strategy.
• Lead design and implementation of AI systems with rigorous testing and reliability.

Skills

AI Systems Engineering

Technical Leadership

Cross-functional Collaboration

Strategic Planning

Mentoring

Communication

Systems Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Meta is seeking a distinguished Software Engineer with deep AI specialization to drive transformative technical initiatives across Meta's AI-powered products and platforms. In this role, you will define and lead the architectural direction of large-scale AI systems — spanning foundation models, intelligent ranking and recommendation infrastructure, and applied machine learning pipelines — that serve billions of users across Meta's family of apps. You will identify and solve the hardest AI engineering challenges in the organization, set technical standards that span multiple teams, and leverage AI as a force multiplier to unlock capabilities previously considered intractable. This is a role for a technical leader who operates at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and production-scale engineering, shaping both the systems and the culture that power Meta's AI future.

Software Engineer, AI Specialist - Monetization (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities

• Identify and solve the most complex AI systems engineering challenges across the organization, including architecting large-scale machine learning training and inference infrastructure that operates at Meta's global scale
• Define extensible technical foundations and cross-organizational standards for AI model development, evaluation, and deployment pipelines that favor consistency and long-term maintainability
• Drive the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for AI platform capabilities, influencing priorities across multiple engineering teams and cross-functional partners including research, product, and data science
• Evaluate emerging AI architectures, model paradigms, and industry developments to identify opportunities and risks relevant to Meta's competitive position, and translate findings into actionable engineering strategy
• Lead the design and implementation of AI systems where correctness, reliability, and performance are rigorously proven, establishing invariants and testing frameworks that prevent entire categories of model and system failures
• Identify where AI tooling and automation can eliminate entire categories of engineering work, and drive adoption of AI-native workflows across engineering teams to exponentially increase organizational throughput
• Collaborate with research scientists and applied researchers to translate novel AI techniques from prototype into production systems that deliver measurable improvements to key product metrics
• Mentor engineers across the organization by providing customized technical coaching, leading engineering programs such as architecture reviews and AI craft initiatives, and establishing a culture of rigor and thoroughness
• Partner with legal, policy, and compliance teams to ensure AI systems meet privacy, security, and integrity standards, and set the bar for responsible AI development practices across the business domain
• Define new metrics and data-driven decision-making principles for long-term, cross-team AI initiatives, connecting technical outcomes to organization-level priorities and business impact

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on AI, machine learning systems, or applied deep learning in production environments
• Experience architecting and delivering large-scale AI or machine learning systems — including training infrastructure, model serving, ranking, recommendation, or foundation model pipelines — that operate at significant scale
• Experience leading multi-team technical initiatives end-to-end, including defining strategy, driving cross-functional alignment, and delivering measurable outcomes against organization-level goals
• Experience identifying and resolving systemic engineering issues that span multiple systems or abstraction layers, including developing frameworks that prevent recurring classes of failures
• Experience communicating complex AI system designs and technical trade-offs in writing and presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences, including engineering leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying AI and automation tooling to eliminate categories of engineering toil and measurably improve team-level or organization-level engineering efficiency
• Contributions to peer-reviewed AI or systems research (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, MLSys, OSDI) or demonstrated track record of translating research advances into production AI systems
• Experience with large-scale model training optimization, distributed training frameworks, or inference efficiency techniques such as quantization, distillation, or speculative decoding
• Experience defining and operationalizing privacy-preserving or safety-aware AI system designs in collaboration with policy, legal, or compliance stakeholders

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [e-mail].

$219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.