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Software Engineer, Systems (Games and Interactive Experiences)

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Base Salary

$184k - $257k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy and roadmaps for games and interactive experiences, solving complex real-time systems challenges.
  • Build, optimize, and ship interactive experiences that meet frame rate, latency, and resource-efficiency targets on real devices.
  • Develop cross-platform and networked real-time solutions that adapt to hardware, form factors, and network conditions.
  • Create evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and tooling to assess and improve model-generated experiences.
  • Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and mentor engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and career development.
  • Own systems and components end-to-end from design through production.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and shipping games, applications, or interactive experiences to production.
  • Experience testing, debugging, and optimizing interactive applications for performance and reliability.
  • Experience serving as a tech lead and driving technical strategy, roadmaps, and complex cross-team technical solutions.
  • Experience with systems-layer concepts such as frame pacing, threading, application lifecycle, or platform integration.
  • Programming experience in C++, C#, Kotlin, Java, Swift, or shader languages.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience with cross-platform porting, responsible AI practices, AI-assisted workflow optimization, Unity or Unreal, real-time graphics and shader pipelines, multiplayer experiences, spatial or XR experiences, hardware degradation strategies, and performance profiling tools.
  • Preferred familiarity with large language models, generative AI application development, prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration, and emerging AI technologies.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $183,997/year to $257,000/year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

C#C++JavaKotlinSwiftUnity

Categories

Gaming
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About Meta

10,000+ employees

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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