Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

5 Months ago • 8-12 Years • Research & Development • $213,000 PA - $293,000 PA

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Job Description

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. **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)
Must have:
  • 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 senior engineers across organizations
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
  • Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • 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
Good to have:
  • 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

Job Details

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 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 senior engineers across organizations
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
  • Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • 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
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$213,000/year to $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 at Meta.


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