Software Engineer (Machine Learning, Technical Leadership) - Meta Business Agent

**Summary:** Meta is seeking experienced engineers to join Meta Business Agents, the org building AI agents and messaging platforms that connect businesses with the people who want to hear from them. Every day, millions of businesses reach customers through WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram Direct, and we build the systems that make those conversations work at that scale, from the messaging infrastructure itself to state-of-the-art AI business agents that can handle a sale, book an appointment or resolve a support question end to end. Our work spans scaled messaging infrastructure, data and agentic platforms, and products serving everyone from a single-person business to a global enterprise. We are defining what agentic commerce looks like, which means the engineering problems are genuinely unsolved. If you want to build AI systems that real businesses depend on from day one, this is the right team for you. **Required Skills:** Software Engineer (Machine Learning, Technical Leadership) - Meta Business Agent Responsibilities: 1. Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient 2. Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail 3. Understand industry and company-wide trends to help assess and develop new technologies 4. Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team and organization 5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization and influence the appropriate people for staffing and prioritizing these new ideas 6. Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts 7. Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap 8. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt **Minimum Qualifications:** Minimum Qualifications: 9. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience 10. 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD 11. Experience influencing executive stakeholders across organizations through technical proposals, roadmap alignment, or strategic recommendations 12. Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions 13. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions 14. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission 15. Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts **Preferred Qualifications:** Preferred Qualifications: 16. Understanding of information retrieval concepts, such as indexing, querying, and ranking 17. Knowledge of NLP techniques, including text preprocessing, tokenization, and sentiment analysis 18. Demonstrated experience with data structures and algorithms, including graph theory and optimization techniques 19. Experience with frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn **Public Compensation:** $271,000/year to $347,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits **Industry:** Internet **Equal Opportunity:** Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment. Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@meta.com.