Software Engineer - Technical Leadership (ML)

Meta
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Meta is seeking Machine Learning Leaders 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.

Responsibilities

  1. Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.
  2. Effectively communicate complex features and 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. Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact.
  2. Vast experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
  3. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long term vision.
  4. Significant experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java, or R) with a technical background.
  5. Significant experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations.
  6. Significant experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining, or artificial intelligence.

Preferred Qualifications

  1. B.S. Computer Science or related technical field.
  2. Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of product.
  3. Experience with Hadoop/HBase/Pig or MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable/Hive/Spark.

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.

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.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, fill out theAccommodations request form.

Apply for this job and take the first step toward a rewarding career at Meta.

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