{"id":390988,"date":"2026-04-10T03:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390988\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:37:16","slug":"meta-transfers-top-engineers-into-new-ai-tooling-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390988\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta transfers top engineers into new AI tooling team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz<\/p>\n

NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) – Meta is drafting top software engineers from across the company into a new AI engineering organization created last month, according to an \u200cinternal memo seen by Reuters, part of a reorganization of its workforce in preparation for layoffs.<\/p>\n

The social \u200cmedia company is starting to inform staffers selected for transfer into the Applied AI (AAI) Engineering unit this week, according to the memo, authored \u200bby the head of the new organization, Maher Saba.<\/p>\n

Saba, a vice president in the Reality Labs division and longtime lieutenant of Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth, had initially invited volunteers to sign up for the organization when he announced its establishment last month.<\/p>\n

Joining was no longer voluntary, he said in his new memo.<\/p>\n

The company was \u201cnow moving to the next \u200cphase: scaling the team\u201d and had worked \u2060with leaders across Meta to \u201cidentify strong SWE (software engineer) talent\u201d for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAAI is one of the company\u2019s highest priorities and we\u2019re resourcing it by moving our strongest talent to address it. \u2060Therefore, the transfers aren\u2019t optional,\u201d he wrote, responding to a question from an employee.<\/p>\n

A Meta spokesperson declined to comment on the memo, first reported by the Information, or plans for the team.<\/p>\n

The reorganization comes as Meta plans sweeping layoffs that \u200bcould eliminate \u200btens of thousands of jobs at the company, as it \u200bseeks to offset costly artificial intelligence<\/a> infrastructure bets \u200cand prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.<\/p>\n

The Applied AI organization is part of that vision, tasked with building tools and evaluations to accelerate the development of AI agents that can write code and carry out complex tasks autonomously.<\/p>\n

The end goal, Saba said last month, was to have the agents perform the bulk of the work to build, test and ship products and infrastructure at Meta, with human staffers monitoring them.<\/p>\n

The Facebook and \u200cInstagram owner has pushed employees to hit targets for AI usage \u200bthis year and has restructured some teams within Reality Labs to \u200bbe \u201cAI native,\u201d with fewer managers keeping tabs on \u200blarge teams using AI-generated reports on their performance.<\/p>\n

CEO Mark Zuckerberg alluded to the transformation he \u200chad planned for the company in a January \u200bcall with investors, saying he \u200bexpected 2026 to be \u201cthe year that AI starts to dramatically change the way that we work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re investing in AI-native tooling so individuals at Meta can get more done, we\u2019re elevating individual contributors, and flattening \u200bteams,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) – Meta is drafting top software engineers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,33876,173358,218,219,61,80688,60,173359,100777,122163,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-390988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-andrew-bosworth","10":"tag-applied-ai","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-internal-memo","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-maher-saba","17":"tag-reality-labs","18":"tag-software-engineers","19":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}