Creative Coder Role
We are seeking a Creative Coder to join our Tech & Prototypes department. As a Creative Coder, you will collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Design to define sound functionality and deliver advanced audio systems. You will develop advanced audio solutions, optimize performance, refine tools, and solve complex technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with design and engineering teams to deliver state-of-the-art audio functionality, tooling, and pipeline solutions
- Provide audio engineering guidance to partners with a focus on empowering sound designers, composers, and ultimately creators, and improving audio quality across all Meta products and platforms
- Use creativity and product thinking to develop innovative audio-focused prototypes and experiences that drive team and company success
- Build functional prototypes from early concepts across a range of prototype fidelities, using a variety of design tools and programming languages, and implement on multiple platforms
- Drive audio-specific features from a technical perspective, ensuring scalability and high-performance quality
- Communicate prototype design decisions to internal stakeholders and provide feedback to partners
- Prep and test for implementation accuracy as well as collaborating with internal and external team members to address bugs and optimize sounds in the product
- Leverage code as a design medium to bridge the gap between product goals and engineering implementation, as well as unlock features for external developers
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years implementing/coding sonic experiences for products in mobile, hardware, and/or non-traditional immersive environments
- 3+ years development experience with at least two of these languages: C++, Kotlin, Javascript, RUST, and Python
- Experience with object-oriented programming and design
- Understanding of DSP and audio signal processing
- Experience with LLMs and prompt engineering
- Experience debugging code in a variety of development environments
- Experience with managing collaboration tools and version control systems such as GitHub, Perforce, etc
- Experience prioritizing tasks and adapting quickly to changes in scope
- Time-management and organizational skills to meet delivery specifications and deadlines
- BA/BS in Audio or Music Technology, Computer Science, Transmedia, or equivalent work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- An understanding of spatial audio, and experience implementing immersive sound experiences
- Experience building AI audio pipelines using tools such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Langchain, and audio processing libraries (e.g., Librosa, torchaudio), integrating models, data preprocessing, feature extraction, and RAG methodologies
- Experience with generative sound or music, speech synthesis, or NLP
- Audio implementation and/or design for shipping AR and VR experiences (Unity, Unreal, and/or Spark, React, Snap, MARS)
- Experience with WebAudio and/or Tone.js and/or OpenAL
- Experience with embedded software development for audio consumer electronics hardware
- Knowledge of acoustics, equipment set ups, and calibration experience with hardware and electronic prototypes and configuration
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
Salary and Benefits
- $132,000/year to $181,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
- Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
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