The Standalone Apps Team at Meta is seeking a staff-level Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of a search algorithm for a new image-and-text community app. This role offers high ownership and the opportunity to shape the product from its inception. The engineer will focus on retrieval, ranking, and relevance to enhance user experience. This is a unique chance to work in a small team and make a significant impact in a new product area.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field.
• 12+ years of relevant experience with deep expertise in search, information retrieval, and ranking.
• Strong foundation in machine learning and systems that train and serve models at scale.
• Proven track record of driving search and relevance improvements that positively impacted product metrics.
• Experience in setting technical direction across multiple teams.

• Own the modeling and systems direction for search, including retrieval, ranking, query understanding, and relevance.
• Define search-quality metrics and the experimentation approach to drive measurable relevance gains.
• Build and scale the machine learning and serving systems that search depends on.
• Set technical direction across teams and align search work with product strategy.
• Mentor machine learning and product engineers to raise the bar on modeling and evaluation rigor.

• Employees at Meta are often offered comprehensive benefits, including medical/dental/vision coverage, mental-health resources, family planning support (fertility, adoption, surrogacy), and caregiving programs. Financial benefits typically include a competitive retirement plan, equity awards, life insurance, and access to financial coaching and legal support. Time-off benefits commonly feature generous PTO and holidays, unlimited sick time, various paid leaves, flexible “Global Travel Days,” and a 30-day paid break every five years.