Software Engineer, Machine Learning
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Menlo Park, CA
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.
Software Engineer, Machine Learning Responsibilities
- Research, design, develop, and test systems-level software for large distributed components that run Meta's applications.
- Work on a range of ranking, classification, recommendation, and optimization problems, eg., video classification, infringements, and integrity violations.
- Work on problems of moderate scope, develop highly scalable systems, algorithms and tools leveraging deep learning, data regression, and rules based models.
- Suggest, collect, analyze and synthesize requirements and bottleneck in technology, systems, and tools.
- Develop solutions that iterate orders of magnitude with a higher efficiency, efficiently leverage orders of magnitude and more data, and explore state-of-the-art deep learning techniques.
- Receive general instruction from supervisor and code deliverables in tandem with the engineering team.
- Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (eg., distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU).
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Software, Computer Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
- Requires completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis in the following:
- 1. Machine Learning Framework(s): PyTorch, MXNet, or Tensorflow
- 2. Machine learning, recommendation systems, computer vision, natural language processing, data mining, or distributed systems
- 3. Hadoop, HBase, Pig, MapReduce, Sawzall, Bigtable, or Spark
- 4. Developing and debugging in C, C++, and Java
- 5. Scripting languages: Perl, Python, PHP, or shell scripts
- 6. C, C++, C#, or Java
- 7. Python, PHP, or Haskell
- 8. Relational databases and SQL
- 9. Software development tools: Code editors (VIM or Emacs), and revision control systems (Subversion, GIT, or Perforce)
- 10. Linux, UNIX, or other *nix-like OS as evidenced by file manipulation, advanced commands, and shell scripting
- 11. Build highly-scalable performant solutions
- 12. Data processing, programming languages, databases, networking, operating systems, computer graphics, or human-computer interaction
- 13. Applying algorithms and core computer science concepts to real world systems as evidenced by recognizing and matching patterns from different areas of computer science in production systems
- 14. Distributed systems.
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Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
$209,720/year to $240,240/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
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