Software Engineer, Machine Learning

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.
• Have industry experience working on a range of classification and optimization problems, e.g. payment fraud, click-through or conversion rate prediction, click-fraud detection, ads/feed/search ranking, text/sentiment classification, collaborative filtering/recommendation, or spam detection.
• Working 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.
• Receiving general instruction from supervisor, 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

• Master’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Software, Computer Engineering, Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation.
• Experience must include 3 years of experience in the following:
• 1. Machine Learning Framework(s): PyTorch, MXNet, or Tensorflow
• 2. Machine learning, recommendation systems, ranking systems, computer vision, natural language processing, data mining, or distributed systems
• 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. Distributed systems including sharding, consistency, and availability
• 14. Data structures and algorithms.

For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. LocationsAbout Meta 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.
$193,000/year to $200,200/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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