Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)

Meta; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 264,000 - 342,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Software Engineer to join its engineering team. This role involves driving technical direction, developing scalable classifiers using machine learning, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of coding experience and strong knowledge of machine learning concepts. Competitive compensation package including a salary range of $264,000 to $342,000 annually, along with bonuses and equity options.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, or Java).
• 8+ years of experience in machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, or deep learning.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals & technical direction.
• Communicate complex features & systems in detail.
• Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning.

Skills

Machine Learning

Data Mining

Python

C++

Java

Recommendation Systems

Pattern Recognition

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Summary

Meta is seeking a Software Engineer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have industry experience working on a range of classification and optimization problems like payment fraud, click-through rate prediction, click-fraud detection, search ranking, text/sentiment classification, collaborative filtering/recommendation, or spam detection. The position will involve taking these skills and applying them to some of the most exciting and massive social data and prediction problems that exist on the web.

Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities

1. Drive the team's goals & technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.

2. Effectively communicate complex features & systems in detail.

3. Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies.

4. Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization.

5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas.

6. Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap.

7. Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models.

8. Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU).

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

2. Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact.

3. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.

4. Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations.

5. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term vision.

6. Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts.

7. 12+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, or Java) with technical background.

8. 8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, data mining or deep learning based methods.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of product.

Public Compensation

$264,000/year to $342,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry

Internet

Equal Opportunity

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.

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