Software Engineering Manager, Generative AI - Characters

Meta - New York, NY

Full-time - Manager

New York, NY

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About the position

The Generative AI Org at Meta is seeking a technical leader to join our team and work on chatbots, characters, and personas. Our team is responsible for making Meta the world's preferred destination for building and engaging with characters. For Connect 2023, we launched a set of characters that users are able to message and engage with, including Dungeon Master, Billie, and Bob the Robot. In 2024 and beyond, we will be looking to scale our learnings to build a platform where anyone can create a character. Our ML team's specific responsibility will be to deliver core LLM models that power the overall platform and user experience. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be tasked with growing a team of domain experts in large language models (LLM) for chatbots and characters. You will drive the execution of developing models and systems that are crucial to the end-user experience. This role requires you to develop a technical vision, long-term strategy, and set direction for the team and the organization. You will also need to communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with clients and peer teams to facilitate cross-functional projects, ensuring that the team is aligned with the broader goals of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Grow a team of domain experts in LLM for chatbots and characters
• Drive execution of developing models and systems that are crucial to the end user experience
• Develop technical vision, long-term strategy and set direction for the team and the organization
• Communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with clients and peer teams to facilitate cross-functional projects

Requirements

• Track record in landing product impact
• 3+ years of hands-on supporting and leading teams of ML engineers/scientists
• Proven technical vision in where the field of Generative AI will go
• Experience with cross functional collaboration with product and platform teams, as well as non-engineering functions
• Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management
• 5+ years of hands on experience in large language model, NLP, and Transformer modeling, in the setting of both research and engineering development

Nice-to-haves

• PhD in deep learning, artificial intelligence, and/or related technical field
• Experience and knowledge of ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.
• Experience and knowledge of working with LLM frameworks like LangChain
• Experience and knowledge of training LLMs