Software Engineer - Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure, MSL (Technical Leadership)
Menlo Park, CAJob$219–301K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Meta seeks a hands-on technical leader to advance Personal Superintelligence within Meta Superintelligence Labs. The role builds and maintains reinforcement learning infrastructure for evaluations, datasets, and experimentation involving consumer and enterprise agents, coding, and other areas. It connects research infrastructure to products through black-box RL infrastructure and collaborates with research, product engineering, data, and infrastructure teams to identify opportunities and deliver impact.
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Summary:
Meta is seeking a hands-on technical leader to advance Personal Superintelligence within Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This role focuses on building and maintaining RL infrastructure that can support the latest evals, RL datasets, and experimentation at the frontier of consumer and enterprise agents, coding, and beyond. In this role, you will work across the research stack as well as connect the research stack to product by building black-box RL infrastructure. You will collaborate across research, product engineering, data, and infrastructure to identify high-leverage opportunities and deliver tangible impact.
Required Skills:
Software Engineer - Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure, MSL (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:
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Maintain RL black-box environment verticals for Muse, MetaAI, and other internal products
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Ensure that we can securely run the most challenging agentive evals and RL problems
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Think holistically about security, development environments for RL, their interactions with various VM solutions, and our core RL infrastructure framework
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
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6+ years of industry experience in machine learning engineering, AI research, software engineering, or a related field
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4+ years of providing technical leadership for complex, multi-person projects
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Experience working on reinforcement learning infrastructure at scale — PPO/GRPO-family algorithms, RLHF/RLAIF, or agentic RL with long-horizon, tool-using rollouts
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Strong Python, plus proficiency in a systems language (C++, Rust, or Go)
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Track record of solving ambiguous, real-world problems and delivering measurable impact within defined timelines
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Ability to work independently, lead across functions, and adapt quickly as evidence and priorities evolve
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience building sandboxed execution or environment infrastructure
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Experience building platforms used by research teams, with a track record of good API/abstraction design
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Contributions to open-source machine learning infrastructure
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Comfort with ambiguity and rapidly shifting research priorities
Public Compensation:
$219,000/year to $301,000/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 41,042 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$219–301K/yr
- California median$165–245K/yr7,687 salary ranges
- US median$135–217K/yr32,734 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $260K, is 27% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,558 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 41,042 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (33,355 postings).
- Education
- 14,290 of the 41,042 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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