Software Engineer, Accelerator Solutions & Technologies (PhD).

Meta is seeking an experienced software engineer to join our Accelerator Solutions & Technologies group, supporting the development of Meta’s accelerators collective communications software library and optimizing distributed AI/ML workloads’ performance. This is an opportunity to work with a engineering team, collaborating with a large set of cross-functional and international partners. Meta’s next-generation, super-cluster AI/ML platforms offer the opportunity to work in an fast-paced environment, enabling core technologies deployed in some of the world’s largest scale clusters.

• Contribute to our developer infrastructure, including simulation and HW emulation platforms, to enable performance measurement and optimization for Meta’s in-house accelerator programs
• Understand and contribute to the collective communications library, intended to be deployed on Meta’s AI/ML superclusters
• Support networking and compute hardware acceleration techniques to improve ML inference and training model performance
• Perform architectural analysis to ensure system designs meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements
• Implement simulation models for Meta’s Accelerator ASICs, develop and analyze various scenarios to evaluate data center performance and identify potential improvements
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to integrate simulation results into system design processes
• Use instruction set simulators to define performant firmware for Meta's training/inference accelerators
• Collaborate with hardware and firmware teams to ensure accurate modeling and simulation of accelerator functionalities
• Analyze simulation results to guide firmware development and optimization efforts

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• 2+ years experience in developing C++ codebase
• 2+ years experience in developing Python codebase
• Understanding of performance, benchmarking measurement, and optimization on collective communications and distributed at-scale model training
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta

• Understanding of the transport stack (e.g., RoCE) and its constraints particularly pertaining to interconnect and collective
• Experience with SystemC
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Knowledge of AI/HPC hardware requirements and specifications (e.g., configuring hardware components for AI/HPC workloads)
• Full-stack experience and understanding of AI/HPC systems, with a focus on the application layer and performance optimizations
• Familiarity with relevant tools, libraries, and frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, CUDA)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

$58.65/hour to $181,000/year + benefits