Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning Specialist
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.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include :
- Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex features and 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 include :
Experience leading projects with industry-wide impactExperience communicating and working across functions to drive solutionsExperience in mentoring / influencing engineers across organizationsProven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term visionExperience in driving large cross-functional / industry-wide engineering efforts12+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java or R) with technical background8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas : machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligenceBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experiencePreferred Qualifications
Preferred qualifications include :
Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of productExperience with Hadoop / Hadoop Base / Pig or MapReduce / Sawzall / Bigtable / Hive / SparkExperience in one or more of the following areas : machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligence$213,000 / year to $293,000 / year + bonus + equity + benefits