Meta

Distinguished Software Engineer, Recommendation Systems (AI/ML)

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

$347k - $403k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead applied AI/ML work on the hardest problems in a recommendation product.
  • Set the product’s two- to three-year north-star architecture.
  • Develop AI-native workflows and tooling to accelerate ML advancement and production delivery.
  • Define metrics and data-driven decision-making principles for long-term ML projects.
  • Identify systemic reliability, privacy, and integrity risks and build technical safeguards for ML systems.
  • Partner with compliance and policy teams on responsible AI deployment.
  • Mentor engineers across the organization on applied AI/ML, complex product debugging, and production-grade AI systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 8 years of experience in applied AI/ML with measurable product outcomes.
  • Experience defining technical strategy and gaining alignment across multiple engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Experience communicating complex ML system designs and trade-offs in writing to technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership.
  • Experience with responsible and ethical AI practices such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
  • Experience building AI-native developer tooling or automation that accelerates ML experimentation and production improvement cycles.
  • Experience applying ML to domains such as ranking and recommendation, generative AI, computer vision, or natural language processing.
  • Industry-recognized contributions to machine learning applications, such as publications or open-source projects.
  • Ongoing AI skill development, including areas such as prompt/context engineering, harness engineering, or agent orchestration.

Benefits

  • Bonus, equity, and benefits are provided in addition to the stated base salary.

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Meta

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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