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Software Engineer (Machine Learning, Technical Leadership) - Meta Business Agent

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Compensation
$271–347K/yr
Location
Menlo Park, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Meta seeks an experienced engineer to provide technical leadership for Meta Business Agents, which builds AI agents and messaging platforms for businesses. The team works across scaled messaging infrastructure, data and agentic platforms, and products for businesses of all sizes. The role leads technical direction and long-term roadmaps, drives cross-company engineering efforts, and helps develop systems for agentic commerce.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Technical DirectionTechnical CommunicationTechnology AssessmentStakeholder CollaborationOrganizational InfluenceTechnical RoadmappingRequirements SynthesisPerformance OptimizationScalabilityTechnical Debt ReductionExecutive Stakeholder InfluenceData AnalysisCross-Functional CommunicationCross-Functional EngineeringInformation RetrievalIndexingQueryingRankingNatural Language ProcessingText PreprocessingTokenizationSentiment AnalysisData StructuresAlgorithmsGraph TheoryOptimization TechniquesTensorFlowPyTorchScikit-Learn

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Relevant Technical Field or Equivalent Practical Experience12+ Years Programming or PhD+8 Years ExperienceMaster's or PhD in Computer Science or Related Technical Field

Full job description

Summary:

Meta is seeking experienced engineers to join Meta Business Agents, the org building AI agents and messaging platforms that connect businesses with the people who want to hear from them. Every day, millions of businesses reach customers through WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram Direct, and we build the systems that make those conversations work at that scale, from the messaging infrastructure itself to state-of-the-art AI business agents that can handle a sale, book an appointment or resolve a support question end to end. Our work spans scaled messaging infrastructure, data and agentic platforms, and products serving everyone from a single-person business to a global enterprise. We are defining what agentic commerce looks like, which means the engineering problems are genuinely unsolved. If you want to build AI systems that real businesses depend on from day one, this is the right team for you.

Required Skills:

Software Engineer (Machine Learning, Technical Leadership) - Meta Business Agent Responsibilities:

  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 and develop new technologies

  4. Partner & 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 and prioritizing these new ideas

  6. Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts

  7. Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap

  8. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

  2. 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD

  3. Experience influencing executive stakeholders across organizations through technical proposals, roadmap alignment, or strategic recommendations

  4. Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions

  5. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions

  6. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission

  7. Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field

  2. Understanding of information retrieval concepts, such as indexing, querying, and ranking

  3. Knowledge of NLP techniques, including text preprocessing, tokenization, and sentiment analysis

  4. Demonstrated experience with data structures and algorithms, including graph theory and optimization techniques

  5. Experience with frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn

Public Compensation:

$271,000/year to $347,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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].

How this job compares

Set against the 42,008 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$271–347K/yr
  • California median$165–246K/yr7,793 salary ranges
  • US median$135–218K/yr33,367 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $309K, is 51% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 9,712 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 42,008 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 34,212 postings).
Education
13,955 of the 42,008 open Software Engineer jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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