Creative Coder

Meta•Los Angeles, CA

41d•$154,000 - $216,000

About The Position

The Creative Audio team is seeking a Creative Coder for the Tech & Prototypes department. This role collaborates closely with Engineering and Product Design to define sound functionality and deliver advanced audio systems. It involves developing advanced audio solutions, optimizing performance, refining tools, and solving complex technical challenges. As a key contributor and leader to Meta’s day-to-day sound design, the Creative Coder provides creative and technical insights to drive immersive and agentic audio experiences, offering a long runway for creativity, innovation, and empowerment to push the boundaries of sound technology and make a meaningful impact.

Requirements

7+ years implementing/coding sonic experiences for products in mobile, hardware, and/or non-traditional immersive environments
5+ years development experience with at least two of these languages: C++. Kotlin, Javascript, RUST and Python
Experience building large scale audio programs with solid OOP architecture
Demonstrated understanding of DSP and audio signal processing
Experience implementing LLMs and Agentic behavior on AI audio workflows
Experience debugging code in a variety of development environments
Experience with managing collaboration tools and version control systems such as GitHub, Perforce, etc
Experience leading projects and prioritizing, based on company goals
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

Nice To Haves

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 building RAG pipelines
An understanding of spatial audio, and experience implementing immersive sound experiences
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

Responsibilities

Identity potential large scale opportunities within Meta and partner with design and engineering teams to deliver state of the art audio functionality, tooling and pipeline solutions
Provide audio engineering leadership to cross-functional partners, improving audio quality and automating workflows across Meta products and platforms through agentic pipelines
Use creativity and product thinking to develop audio-focused prototypes and experiences that drive team and company success
Support AI Audio teams throughout every stage of the model lifecycle, from training through implementation
Implement existing audio models into product pipelines
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
Convey 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
Demonstrate thought leadership in the convergence of artificial intelligence and audio technologies, actively staying informed on state-of-the-art developments and industry trends