Software Engineer, PAR Regulatory Readiness

Meta is seeking a Research Engineer specializing in AI to help define and drive the technical direction of AI systems that power products used by billions of people worldwide. In this role, you will architect and deliver large-scale AI infrastructure, foundational model capabilities, and intelligent systems that span Meta's family of apps and platforms while preparing for upcoming AI regulations. You will identify the hardest unsolved problems at the intersection of AI research and production engineering, translate cutting-edge advances into reliable, high-impact systems, and set the technical standard for how AI is built and deployed across the organization.

Software Engineer, PAR Regulatory Readiness Responsibilities:

• Identify and solve the most complex AI systems challenges across the organization, including problems that span model training, inference optimization, and large-scale deployment pipelines
• Architect extensible, reliable foundations for AI infrastructure that enable multiple teams to build and iterate on machine learning models at scale
• Define technical strategy and roadmap for AI platform capabilities, gaining alignment across engineering, research, and product organizations
• Drive cross-functional execution of multi-year AI initiatives, establishing metrics that connect technical progress to organization-level priorities
• Establish invariants, testing frameworks, and verification standards that prevent entire categories of model correctness and reliability issues in production AI systems
• Identify and resolve systemic performance bottlenecks across the AI stack, from data ingestion and feature engineering through model serving and real-time inference
• Partner with AI research teams to translate theoretical advances in machine learning into production systems that deliver measurable improvements to Meta's products
• Mentor engineers across the organization on AI systems design, debugging techniques, and engineering best practices, serving as a sought-after technical advisor
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and industry trends to assess their applicability and risk to Meta's AI strategy and competitive position
• Collaborate with legal, policy, and compliance teams to ensure AI systems meet privacy, security, and integrity standards across all deployment contexts

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on AI, machine learning systems, or large-scale distributed systems that support model training and inference
• Experience architecting and owning production AI or machine learning platforms at scale, including end-to-end responsibility for reliability, performance, and evolution of those systems
• Experience defining technical strategy and driving execution across multiple engineering teams, including influencing roadmap priorities and gaining cross-functional alignment
• Experience identifying and resolving systemic issues in AI pipelines, including debugging complex failures that span model behavior, data quality, and infrastructure layers
• Experience establishing engineering standards, architectural patterns, and verification practices that improve the quality and velocity of AI development across an organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Track record of publishing or productionizing novel approaches in machine learning, systems for ML, or AI safety and reliability at scale
• Experience building or significantly contributing to large-scale foundation model training infrastructure, including distributed training frameworks, mixed-precision optimization, or model parallelism strategies
• Experience with AI inference optimization techniques such as quantization, distillation, speculative decoding, or hardware-aware kernel development for accelerators
• Experience collaborating with AI policy, privacy, or integrity teams to design technical safeguards that address responsible AI deployment requirements

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

$219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.