Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

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.


Required Skills:


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:



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: