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Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning

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**Public Compensation:** $219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits **Industry:** Internet
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What you’ll work on

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  • Set team technical direction and goals, and lead the long-term technical vision and roadmap

  • Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts

  • Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues and drive efforts to reduce technical debt

  • Partner with organization leaders to improve team and organization performance

  • Communicate complex features and systems in detail

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Drive the team's goals and technical direction
Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt
Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail

What you’ll bring

All qualifications

Core experience

  • Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
  • Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
  • Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations

Preferred experience

  • Demonstrated experience with data structures and algorithms, including graph theory and optimization techniques
  • Experience with frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn
  • Understanding of information retrieval concepts, such as indexing, querying, and ranking
  • Knowledge of NLP techniques, including text preprocessing, tokenization, and sentiment analysis
Qualification wording
10. Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
11. Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
12. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
13. Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
14. Demonstrated experience with data structures and algorithms, including graph theory and optimization techniques
15. Experience with frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn
16. Understanding of information retrieval concepts, such as indexing, querying, and ranking
18. Knowledge of NLP techniques, including text preprocessing, tokenization, and sentiment analysis
Education & alternatives
16. Understanding of information retrieval concepts, such as indexing, querying, and ranking 17. Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field 18. Knowledge of NLP techniques, including text preprocessing, tokenization, and sentiment analysis
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14. Demonstrated experience with data structures and algorithms, including graph theory and optimization techniques 15. Experience with frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn 16. Understanding of information retrieval concepts, such as indexing, querying, and ranking

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About the role

We file this job under Data Scientist, by the work the posting describes.

Data scientists use statistics and models to answer harder questions, such as whether a change worked, what demand will look like next quarter, or which customers are likely to leave.

Postings usually ask for Python or R, SQL, statistics, experiment design and common machine learning methods.

Unlike an ML engineer, a data scientist's main output is often an analysis or a first model, not software running inside a product.

US government figures for data scientists

Median yearly pay, May 2025
$120,230
Expected change, 2025 to 2035
34.6% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-2051.

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**Summary:** Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. As a member of our team, you will oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across various platforms, including mobile devices and web applications. Our teams are constantly pushing the boundaries of user experience, and we're looking for passionate individuals who can help us advance the way people connect globally. If you're interested in leading a world-class team of engineers and researchers to work on exciting projects that have significant impact, we encourage you to apply. **Required Skills:** Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - Machine Learning 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 & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies 4. Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization 5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/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. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission 10. Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts 11. Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions 12. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions 13. Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations **Preferred Qualifications:** Preferred Qualifications: 14. Demonstrated experience with data structures and algorithms, including graph theory and optimization techniques 15. Experience with frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn 16. Understanding of information retrieval concepts, such as indexing, querying, and ranking 17. Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field 18. Knowledge of NLP techniques, including text preprocessing, tokenization, and sentiment analysis 19. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements) 20. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews) 21. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies **Public Compensation:** $219,000/year to $301,000/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.
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