Software Engineering Manager - Neural Interface ML Infra
Meta Burlingame, California, United States · $184K–$257K/yr
Software Development · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Lead an engineering team focused on AI infrastructure, distributed systems, and hardware-software co-design for wearable products. Drive technical vision, manage roadmaps, and foster cross-functional collaboration with research and hardware teams.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires at least 3 years of software engineering management experience and a strong technical background in AI/ML or distributed systems. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to guide complex technical decisions and mentor engineering talent.
Benefits
Full description
Lead a team at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and hardware architecture. The role drives ML model efficiency and scalability, infrastructure costs, and enables embedded AI capabilities. Directly supporting Meta's ability to train and serve AI models for wearable products.
Responsibilities
- People Leadership: Build/retain an engineering team; provide coaching, mentorship, and performance management
- Technical Leadership: Engage in design reviews, architecture decisions, and technical trade-offs; define technical vision with Tech Leads
- Execution: Drive complex hardware-software co-design projects to completion; manage roadmaps, timelines, and risk mitigation
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with AI Infra, Hardware Engineering, Product, and Research; represent the team to leadership
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years managing software engineering teams with a track record of delivering measurable outcomes
- Technical background in at least two of: AI/ML systems, distributed/HPC systems, software tooling and infrastructure or model optimization with GPUs/accelerators
- Demonstrated ability to engage deep in technical work and guide decisions
- Proven track record growing engineers
- Experience communicating technical strategy and influencing cross-functional stakeholders through written proposals and presentations
Preferred Qualifications
- M.S. or Ph.D. in CS, EE, or related field
- Prior Tech Lead, TLM, or IC experience before management
- Experience building teams in ambiguous, exploratory domains
- Track record of maintaining team engagement, retention, and consistent delivery outcomes
- Experience managing AI infrastructure and capacity including GPU/CPU used for training, benchmarking and inference
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent AI frameworks
- Familiarity with AI compilers, high-performance kernel development, or hardware enablement
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Background in performance optimization/profiling
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
$184,000/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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