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Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning Specialist at Meta

Required Skills

pythonmachine learningrecommendation systemsnlpdata miningdistributed computinghadoopspark

About the Role

Meta is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer with technical leadership experience to work on large-scale social data and prediction problems. The role involves developing scalable classifiers and tools using machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models, while driving team goals and technical direction. The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of programming experience and 8+ years in machine learning, recommendation systems, NLP, or related areas.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive team goals and technical direction to improve organizational efficiency
  • Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools using machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models
  • Adapt standard machine learning methods for modern parallel environments
  • Communicate complex features and systems in detail across functions
  • Identify new opportunities and influence staffing/prioritization for the larger organization

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

  • 12+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java or R)
  • 8+ years of experience in machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligence
  • Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
  • Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or starting a new line of product
  • Experience with Hadoop/Hadoop Base/Pig or MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable/Hive/Spark
  • Additional experience in machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining or artificial intelligence

Benefits & Perks

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Health benefits