Creative Coder

Meta
Los Angeles, CA +3 locations

About the job

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.

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 pi

Qualifications

Minimum

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

Preferred

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

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies