Staff Software Specialist - AI - Monetisation

Meta Meta · Big Tech · London, United Kingdom

Meta's Core Ads Quality team is seeking a Staff Software Specialist to work on AI and ML problems at scale, focusing on optimizing the trade-off between ad quality and revenue. The role involves developing novel AI algorithms and systems, improving user experience with ads, and leading projects with significant business impact. Experience with foundation models, ML infrastructure, and user behavior modeling is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work on meaningful technical (ML and infra) problems at Meta’s scale affecting multiple surfaces (Facebook, Instagram, Threads,...)
  2. Fundamentally change how decisions are made across the business when investing on ads quality
  3. Develop novel, accurate AI algorithms and advanced systems for large scale applications
  4. Define long-term plans and lead teams on executing them
  5. Improve the experience of users interacting with ads and help the company mission to establish valuable connections between users and businesses

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI), computer science, related technical fields, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in bringing research results into production
  • Experience in training, fine-tuning, and/or experimenting with foundation models beyond black-box use
  • Experience developing machine learning algorithms or machine learning infrastructure in Python, PyTorch, and/or C/C++
  • Track record delivering successful products with large scale impact
  • Experience in User Behaviour modeling, Long-term Value optimization or Causal Learning
  • Experience in Reinforcement Learning, GenAI, Large Language Models, etc

Nice to have

  • PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), computer science, related technical fields, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in Ads, especially in auction theory and implementation (bidding, budgeting, targeting)

What the JD emphasized

  • equivalent practical experience
  • Experience in bringing research results into production
  • Experience in training, fine-tuning, and/or experimenting with foundation models beyond black-box use
  • Track record delivering successful products with large scale impact
  • Experience in Reinforcement Learning, GenAI, Large Language Models, etc

Other signals

  • optimizing for both quality and revenue
  • long term revenue growth
  • user behavior understanding
  • AI technologies