Senior Software Engineer, Generative AI

Job Overview

Meta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Meta AI foundation team. This team is responsible for building the foundations for developing and optimizing products based on Large Language Models (LLMs). We are looking for strong engineers with a background in generative AI and NLP/NLU, with experience in areas like language model evaluation, LLM alignment, synthetic data generation, LLM fine-tuning, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

Responsibilities

• Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to advance the state of the art in large language models and their applications.
• Apply AI technologies to develop and optimize Meta’s products and services.
• Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results.
• Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g., distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU).
• Collaborate with a large and globally distributed team.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field of generative AI.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of industry, academic, or government laboratory experience.
• Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact.
• Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Industrial experience in generative AI and LLM.

Preferred Qualifications

• A PhD in AI, computer science, or related technical fields.
• 7+ years of industry, academic, or government laboratory experience.

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.

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.

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.

Compensation

• Salary Range: $85.10/hour to $251,000/year
• Additional Compensation: Bonus, equity, and benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits.