Meta

Software Engineer, Machine Learning

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3 days ago
Bellevue, WA, USA or Menlo Park, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$154k - $217k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, train, and deploy machine learning models for large-scale ranking, recommendation, classification, or generative AI systems.
  • Develop and maintain ML pipelines for data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and production serving.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and infrastructure engineers to translate ML research into production systems.
  • Define metrics, dashboards, and alerting to monitor model health and detect regressions.
  • Lead technical design of ML systems and evaluate trade-offs involving quality, latency, throughput, and infrastructure cost.
  • Design and analyze experiments to validate model improvements and inform product decisions.
  • Profile and optimize model training and inference performance and resolve architectural bottlenecks.
  • Incorporate privacy, security, and responsible AI principles into ML system design and workflows.
  • Mentor engineers, improve coding standards, and drive tooling and automation adoption.
  • Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and experimental outcomes to cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6+ years of software engineering experience focused on machine learning systems, model development, or ML infrastructure.
  • Experience developing and deploying machine learning models at scale, including feature engineering, training, evaluation, and production serving.
  • Experience designing and analyzing A/B experiments for ML model improvements and data-informed product decisions.
  • Production-quality programming experience in Python, C++, or a comparable language, with experience building maintainable and well-tested ML systems.
  • Experience owning end-to-end ML project delivery, including technical design, cross-functional collaboration, and operational readiness.
  • Preferred experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, distributed training, and model serving infrastructure.
  • Preferred experience with recommendation systems, natural language processing, computer vision, or generative AI.
  • Preferred experience applying responsible and ethical AI practices, including bias evaluation, risk assessment, and model quality reviews.
  • Preferred experience using AI-assisted development tools, prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration, and emerging AI technologies.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary of $154,003/year to $217,000/year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

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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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