Meta
Software Engineer, Machine Learning - Search Algorithm, Standalone Apps Team
$271K–$347K
Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Jul 2, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of relevant experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Own the modeling and systems direction for search—including retrieval, ranking, query understanding, and relevance—for a new community app.
What you'll do
- Set search modeling and systems direction and drive measurable relevance improvements.
- Build and scale search ML and serving systems; define search-quality metrics and experimentation.
- Align search work with product strategy and mentor engineers across teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep expertise in search, information retrieval, or ranking.
- Strong ML foundation and experience with systems that train and serve models at scale.
- Track record of improving search/relevance product metrics; experience setting direction across teams and building search for a new product.
Nice to have
- Experience with semantic/embedding retrieval, query understanding, or large-scale search infrastructure.
- Publications or recognized contributions in IR/search/ML.
Pay
$271,000/year to $347,000/year (USD, base salary); bonus and equity amounts not stated.
AI focus
Own search ML for retrieval, ranking, query understanding, and relevance, including model training and serving at scale.
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