Software Engineer, Machine Learning

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 operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for massive social data and prediction problems.
  • Work on problems of diverse 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.
  • Code deliverables in tandem with the engineering team.
  • Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU).
Minimum Qualifications
  • Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Software, Computer Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or related field, and five (5) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate work experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation. Experience must include 5 years of experience in the following:
  • 1. Filesystems, server architectures, and distributed systems.
  • 2. Machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, data mining, or artificial intelligence.
  • 3. Translating insights into business recommendations.
  • 4. Hadoop/HBase/Pig or MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable/Spark.
  • 5. Developing and debugging in C/C++ and Java.
  • 6. Scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, or shell scripts.
  • 7. C, C++, C#, or Java.
  • 8. Python, PHP, or Haskell.
  • 9. Relational databases and SQL.
  • 10. Software development tools: Code editors (VIM or Emacs), and revision control systems (Subversion, GIT, or Perforce).
  • 11. Linux, UNIX, or other *nix-like OS including file manipulation and simple commands. 12. Building highly-scalable performant solutions.
  • 13. Designing scalable distributed systems with established partition tolerance, consistency, and availability guarantees.
  • 14. Data processing, programming languages, databases, networking, operating systems, computer graphics, or human-computer interaction.
  • 15. 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.
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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.
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$232,000/year to $240,240/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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