Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. The AI Specialist will develop scalable algorithms using machine learning and neural network methodologies, collaborate with engineering teams, and research new algorithms to enhance Meta's platforms.
Responsibilities
- Develop highly scalable algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning and neutral network methodologies
- Suggest, collect, and synthesize requirements and create effective feature roadmap
- 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)
- Perform specific responsibilities which vary by team
- Research, design, and develop new algorithms and techniques to improve the efficiency and performance of Meta's platforms
- Gather data for machine-learning training
- Train new ranking models and run experiments
- Identify potential improvements in company's software and technology products
- Research and present effects of current engineering efforts on Meta's market standing from an economic and game-theoretic point of view
- Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules based models
Skills
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
- Research and/or work in machine learning, NLP, reinforcement learning, deep learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, signal processing, data mining, artificial intelligence, information retrieval or computer vision
- Java or C++, Perl, PHP or Python
- Experience with developing scalable machine learning models in at least one of the following areas: Crawling, indexing, extraction, retrieval, ranking, recommendations, measurement, tooling, evaluation, query understanding, planning, vector databases, or embeddings
- Experience with large scale model training, implementing algorithms, and evaluating speech-based systems
- Experience taking ideas from research to production
- Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and broad points of view to determine a path forward
- Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment
- First author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)
Benefits
Company Overview
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. It was founded in 2004, and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, US, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.metacareers.com/.
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