Software Engineer, AI Specialist - Wearables AI (technical Leadership)

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Burlingame, CA

Software Engineer, AI Specialist at Meta focused on Wearables AI. This role involves defining and leading the architecture of large-scale AI systems for smart glasses and other wearable devices, building on-device and cloud-based AI experiences including multimodal understanding and contextual assistants. The position requires technical leadership at the intersection of AI research and production engineering, with responsibilities spanning system architecture, roadmap definition, evaluation of AI advancements, and collaboration with research, hardware, product, and data science teams. The role also emphasizes mentoring engineers, ensuring privacy and security standards, and defining new metrics for AI initiatives.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and solve the most complex AI modeling and systems challenges for wearables, including architecting an omni LLM for wearables interactions, optimized for power, latency, and compute constraints
  2. Define extensible technical foundations and cross-organizational standards for wearables AI model development, evaluation, and deployment pipelines across Meta's wearable device portfolio
  3. Drive the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for Wearables AI platform capabilities, influencing priorities across teams and cross-functional partners including research, hardware, product, and data science
  4. Evaluate emerging AI architectures and industry developments in wearables AI to identify opportunities and risks relevant to Meta's competitive position
  5. Lead the design and implementation of multimodal AI systems for wearables, including vision, audio, and agentic capabilities, reliability, and real-time performance are critical

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on AI, LLM systems, or applied AI in production environments
  • Experience architecting and delivering large-scale AI, including training infrastructure, model serving, or foundation model pipelines
  • Experience leading multi-team technical initiatives end-to-end, including defining strategy, driving cross-functional alignment, and delivering measurable outcomes against organization-level goals
  • Experience identifying and resolving systemic engineering issues that span models, multiple systems or abstraction layers, including developing frameworks that prevent recurring classes of failures
  • Experience communicating complex AI designs and technical trade-offs in writing and presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences, including engineering leadership
  • Contributions to peer-reviewed AI research (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, KDD) or demonstrated track record of translating research advances into production AI systems
  • Experience with large-scale Omni LLM training optimization, distributed training frameworks, or inference efficiency techniques such as quantization, distillation, or speculative decoding
  • Experience with conversational AI, vision understanding, wearables AI systems
  • Experience applying AI and automation tooling to eliminate categories of engineering toil and measurably improve team-level or organization-level engineering efficiency

Nice to have

  • Publications in top-tier AI conferences

What the JD emphasized

  • architecting an omni LLM for wearables interactions, optimized for power, latency, and compute constraints
  • real-time performance are critical
  • privacy, security, and integrity standards for always-on, sensor-rich devices
  • Experience with large-scale Omni LLM training optimization, distributed training frameworks, or inference efficiency techniques such as quantization, distillation, or speculative decoding
  • Experience with conversational AI, vision understanding, wearables AI systems

Other signals

  • architecting an omni LLM for wearables interactions
  • define and lead the architectural direction of large-scale AI systems powering Meta's wearable devices
  • build intelligent on-device and cloud-based AI experiences spanning multimodal understanding, contextual assistants, and real-time interactive AI systems
  • translate novel AI techniques into production wearables systems