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 across various platforms.
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 communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
- Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
