Required Software Engineer, Machine Learning
We are embarking on the most transformative change to its business and technology in company history, and our Machine Learning Engineers are at the forefront of this evolution. By leading crucial projects and initiatives that have never been done before, you have an opportunity to help us advance the way people connect around the world.
The ideal candidate will have industry experience working on a range of recommendation, classification, and optimization problems. You will bring the ability to own the whole ML life cycle, define projects and drive excellence across teams. You will work alongside the worlds leading engineers and researchers to solve some of the most exciting and massive social data and prediction problems that exist on the web.
Software Engineer, Machine Learning Responsibilities
Play a critical role in setting the direction and goals for a sizable team, in terms of project impact, ML system design, and ML excellence
Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)
Re-evaluate the tradeoffs of already shipped features/ML systems, and you are able to drive large efforts across multiple teams to reduce technical debt, designing from first principles when appropriate
Leading a team from a technical perspective to develop ML best practices and influence engineering culture
Be a go-to person to escalate the most complex online/production performance and evaluation issues, that require an in depth knowledge of how the machine learning system interacts with systems around it
Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules based models
Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create effective feature roadmap
Code deliverables in tandem with the engineering team.
Requirements: Minimum Qualifications
Experience in software engineering, or a relevant field
Experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, data mining, artificial intelligence, or related technical field
Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Javascript or Hack
Experience leading major initiatives successfully
Experience building and shipping high quality work and achieving high reliability
Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact
Knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ and Java, or experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, PHP, and/or shell scripts
Experience demonstrating technical leadership working with teams, owning projects, defining and setting technical direction for projects
Experienced in utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and providing detailed feedback and solutions
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications
Experience with scripting languages such as Pytorch and TF.
This position is open to all candidates.