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Manager, Software Engineering, Computer Vision - Facebook AI

Posted on: 6 Apr 2021

Menlo Park, CA

Job Description

The mission for the Computer Vision organization at Facebook AI is to innovate on ways for machines to understand visual content, offering various metadata and tools to downstream product groups. The role entails supporting a team working closely with our AR product group to build core building blocks for an AI Assistant on future hardware initiatives. In particular, the cross-functional team of Engineers and Researchers focuses on models and techniques to build AR users core memory (remembering context) and better personalization (remembering personal concepts). This requires investing in research bets and corresponding models that span Computer Vision, Dialog, Continual Learning, Multimodal Learning and Knowledge Graphs.

Manager, Software Engineering, Computer Vision - Facebook AI Responsibilities

* Lead an organization of engineers and researchers with a diverse set of expertise and be able to create a vision across these pillars

* Coordinate with other AI organizations like FAIR and AI Infra to build strong research and system bridges

* Engage cross-functionally with counterparts in core AR and hardware teams to push the product portfolio with our technology building blocks. Also convert long term product roadmaps into research directions for the extended organization

* Continue to grow the research and engineering culture, along with the team

Minimum Qualifications

* Ph.D. or equivalent research experience in AI specifically in the areas of Computer Vision, Speech, and/or NLP

* 3+ years of people management experience in multi-disciplinary teams at the intersection of research and product, including building performing teams and organization

* Demonstrated experience in recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management

* Leadership and interpersonal communication experience in working across many disciplines, drive best practices, and mentor team members

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience working on AR products, having shipped a few features and/or products in this space

* Experience working with cross-functional roles like PMs, designers and data science

* Research experience in the form of publications

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About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

Facebook is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent, and to candidates with sincerely held religious beliefs or requiring pregnancy related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.

Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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