Meta is seeking to build cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world, and is looking for principal engineers to oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products.
Requirements
- 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
- 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 with frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn
- Knowledge of NLP techniques, including text preprocessing, tokenization, and sentiment analysis
- Understanding of information retrieval concepts, such as indexing, querying, and ranking
- Demonstrated experience with data structures and algorithms, including graph theory and optimization techniques
Responsibilities
- Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
- Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
- Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
- Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
- Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
- Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
- Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
- Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams
