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10 Meta Superintelligence Labs machine learning engineers
These ten current and former Meta Superintelligence Labs machine learning engineers have held machine learning engineering roles at Meta. A reader can learn what machine learning engineers work at Meta Superintelligence Labs involves from people who have done it.
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01—10Daniel Hawthorne
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist (Machine Learning Engineer) Meta Superintelligence Lab · Meta
Research Scientist (Machine Learning Engineer) Meta Superintelligence Lab at Meta since 2021, a role the profile places in Boston and connects to computer use agent RL post-training data and pre-training data prioritization. Daniel was also Research Scientist at Ought (2021) and CTO & Co-Founder of Datawallet (2015–2021).
Danwei Lydia L.
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Engineer · Meta
Machine Learning Engineer at Meta since 2022, a role the profile says spanned teams at AI@Meta including Facebook AI Applied Research and GenAI, with work on LLM self-training, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, alignment, reasoning, mid-training and RL. Danwei was also Software Engineer at Google (2017–2022).
Kate Plawiak
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Engineer, Tech Lead · Meta
Machine Learning Engineer, Tech Lead at Meta since 2022, a role the profile places in San Francisco within Meta Superintelligence Labs at head level in engineering. Kate was also Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Adobe (2017–2022) and Data Scientist at the Center for Homicide Research (2015–2017).
May Zhou
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior ML Engineer - Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta
Former Senior ML Engineer - Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta (2023–2025), a role the profile places in New York City and describes as post-training for factuality, hallucination prevention and fine-tuning for search retrieval on Meta AI and Llama 3. May was also Senior ML tech lead at Meta (2025–2026) and has been Global ML Lead at rednote since 2026.
Michael Mingchun Liu
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI · Meta
Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI at Meta since 2024, a role the profile places in the engineering department. Michael was also Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platforms at Square (2022–2024), Machine Learning Engineer, Documents at Lone Wolf Technologies (2021–2022) and Software Developer at Alberta Investment Management Corporation (2018–2021).
Naz Khosravani
LinkedInExperience: Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer · Meta
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Meta since 2026, a role the profile places in Menlo Park within Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Meta (2025–2026). Naz was also Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Google (2023–2025), Software Engineer at Facebook (2019–2023) and Software Engineer at Google (2016–2019).
Pradyot Prakash
LinkedInExperience: Former ML Engineer, Llama/MSL (Meta Superintelligence Labs) · Meta
Former ML Engineer, Llama/MSL (Meta Superintelligence Labs) at Meta (2023–2025), where the profile says Pradyot researched frontier tool use for Applied Llama and Meta AI and helped set technical direction across post-training. Pradyot was also ML Engineer, Speech & Reality Labs at Meta (2019–2023) and has been Founding AI Engineer at SciFin since 2025.
Wang Zhou
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Engineer - Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta
Machine Learning Engineer - Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta since 2021, a role the profile places in New York City in the Engineering and Technical department at specialist level. Wang was also Research Staff Member at IBM (2016–2021) and a Summer Research Intern at IBM (2015).
Yexi Jiang
LinkedInExperience: Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta since 2025, a role the profile describes as improving personalization and AI-generated content for the Meta AI product suite through relevance modeling, content generation personalization, agent and RAG optimization and knowledge distillation. Yexi was also Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning Platform at Uber (2019–2020).
Yuncheng Wu
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Lab (MSL) · Meta
Machine Learning Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Lab (MSL) at Meta since 2025; the profile headline reads AI Research Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Labs. At Meta, Yuncheng was also Machine Learning Engineer (2021–2025), a role the profile places in Menlo Park, and held Machine Learning Engineer rows in 2020 and 2019.
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Match the person's area to your question, since post-training, personalization of AI products, agent training data and tool use are different kinds of machine learning work. Check whether the role is current or past and which group the person's own title or profile names.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What does a machine learning engineer working on post-training spend most of the week doing?
- 02How do you decide which data to prioritize when training or fine-tuning a large model?
- 03How does machine learning engineering for an AI assistant product differ from ranking or recommendation work?
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