Meta
Meta Platforms builds social media, messaging, and advertising products (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) alongside AI models and infrastructure, including its open-source Llama model family.
AI tierAI-poweredAI is real and material, but the business is not AI.
AI layerBuilds AISells AI itself: models, chips, tools, infrastructure.
In AustinOffice hereSince 2010
Why: Meta's core business (social apps/advertising) predates and doesn't require AI, but the company builds and open-sources major AI models (Llama) and AI infrastructure, including a dedicated Austin team running Llama/open-source AI hackathons.
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- Downtown Austin office (Third + Shoal)Third + Shoal607 West 3rd Street, Austin, TX 78701Opened 2010
Open AI roles (16)
- Applied AI Architect, Meta Enterprise PlatformFirst seen today
- Software Engineer, Systems MLFirst seen yesterday
- Software Engineer, Systems Machine LearningFirst seen 7 days ago
- Hardware Engineer, AI Accelerator Module DesignPosted ~Oct 13, 2026
- Product Policy Manager, GenAIPosted ~Oct 8, 2026
- IP Validation Engineer - Machine Learning AcceleratorsPosted ~Oct 5, 2026
- Hardware Engineer, AI Accelerator Power DesignPosted ~Oct 1, 2026
- Production Systems Engineer, AI SystemsPosted ~Sep 21, 2026