Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

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:

Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning Responsibilities:

Drive the team's goals & technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient

Effectively communicate complex features & 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)

Qualification and experience:

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact

Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions

Experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations

Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term vision

Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

12+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java or R) with technical background

8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligence

Preferred:

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of product

Experience with Hadoop/HBase/Pig or MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable/Hive/Spark