Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning Specialist

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 213,000 - 293,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer with a focus on Machine Learning to tackle complex social data challenges. In this pivotal role, you'll lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and develop cutting-edge machine learning models for diverse applications, from fraud detection to recommendation systems. Join a forward-thinking team that is reshaping the future of social technology, where your contributions will directly impact millions of users. If you're passionate about leveraging technology to drive solutions and enhance user experiences, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Equity

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible work hours

Generous paid time off

Retirement savings plan

Qualifications

• 12+ years of programming experience in Python, C++, Java, or R.
• Experience leading impactful projects and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction and improve organizational efficiency.
• Develop scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

R

Machine Learning

NLP

Data Mining

Recommendation Systems

Pattern Recognition

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Hadoop

HBase

Spark

MapReduce

Bigtable

Hive

Job description

Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning Specialist

Meta is seeking Machine Learning Engineers 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) - Machine Learning Specialist Responsibilities

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

Effectively communicate complex features & systems in detail

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

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

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

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

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

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact

Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions

Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations

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

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

8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligence

Preferred Qualifications

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

Experience with Hadoop/HBase/Pig or MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable/Hive/Spark

Experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligence

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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.

US$213,000/year to US$293,000/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.

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Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view our Equal Employment Opportunity notice here .

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