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Software Engineer - Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure, MSL (Technical Leadership)

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8 days ago
Menlo Park, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$219k - $301k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Maintain reinforcement learning black-box environment verticals for Muse, MetaAI, and other internal products.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure supporting frontier evaluations, RL datasets, and experimentation for agents, coding, and related applications.
  • Enable secure execution of challenging agentic evaluations and reinforcement learning problems.
  • Develop and connect research-stack infrastructure to product engineering through black-box RL infrastructure.
  • Address security, development environments, virtual machine interactions, and the core RL infrastructure framework.
  • Collaborate across research, product engineering, data, and infrastructure teams and provide technical leadership for complex multi-person projects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 6 years of industry experience in machine learning engineering, AI research, software engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 4 years providing technical leadership for complex, multi-person projects.
  • Experience with reinforcement learning infrastructure at scale, including PPO/GRPO-family algorithms, RLHF/RLAIF, or agentic RL with long-horizon, tool-using rollouts.
  • Strong Python skills and proficiency in a systems language such as C++, Rust, or Go.
  • Track record of solving ambiguous real-world problems and delivering measurable impact within defined timelines.
  • Ability to work independently, lead across functions, and adapt to evolving evidence and priorities.
  • Preferred: experience with sandboxed execution or environment infrastructure, research platforms, API and abstraction design, and open-source machine learning infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Bonus, equity, and benefits are offered in addition to the stated base salary.
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Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.

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