Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

Meta - Burlingame, CA

Full-time - Senior

Burlingame, CA

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About the position

Meta is seeking a Software Engineer with a focus on Technical Leadership in Machine Learning to join their engineering team. The role involves leading projects that address significant social data and prediction challenges, utilizing machine learning techniques to enhance organizational efficiency and performance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in machine learning applications and a proven track record of influencing and mentoring teams across functions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals & technical direction to pursue opportunities that make the 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 improve team & organizational performance
• Identify new opportunities for the organization & influence staffing/prioritization of these 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 exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)

Requirements

• 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 machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligence

Nice-to-haves

• 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