Software Specialist (tl) - Ai/ml - Monetisation

Meta Meta · Big Tech · United Kingdom +1 · Remote

Meta's Core Ads Quality team is seeking a Software Specialist (TL) to drive technical direction and strategy for AI/ML initiatives within the ads monetization space. This role involves optimizing the trade-off between ad quality and revenue, understanding user behavior, and building robust infrastructure for signals and metrics. The position requires experience in developing ML algorithms and infrastructure, bringing research to production, and planning multi-year roadmaps, with a focus on analytical problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
  2. Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
  3. Understand industry and company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
  4. Partner and collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team and organization
  5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization and influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas

Skills

Required

  • Experience developing machine learning algorithms or machine learning infrastructure in Python, PyTorch, and/or C/C++
  • Bachelor in Artificial Intelligence (AI), computer science, related technical fields, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in bringing research results into production
  • Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
  • xperience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
  • Experience in manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume data from varying sources

Nice to have

  • PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), computer science, related technical fields, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in Reinforcement Learning, GenAI, Large Language Models, etc
  • Experience in Ads, especially in auction theory and implementation (bidding, budgeting, targeting)
  • Experience in User Behaviour modellling, Long-term Value optimization or Causal Learning

What the JD emphasized

  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
  • Large experience with machine learning / AI technologies

Other signals

  • optimizing for both quality and revenue
  • work at the intersection of Ads, Machine Learning and User Behaviour understanding
  • analytical, with a solid collaboration with our Data Scientist and a heavy focus on not only understand “what” but also “why”
  • nascent and full of unexploited opportunities
  • consistently hit their goals and delivered XXXM$ in incremental long term revenue for Meta while ensuring high ads quality