Facebook seeks computer vision engineers for 'next generation products'

Computer vision is a field that involves electronically processing and understanding images. It can be applied to a range of industries and tasks, but most obviously for Facebook, it could help the company organize the massive amount of photos and videos users share by recognizing what is within those images. If Facebook could better understand the contents of a photo or video, that could improve News Feed relevancy algorithms, help users search and find media on the platform, and open up new possibilities for Sponsored Stories or ways to monetize Instagram.

This is an important area for Facebook, which has so much potential data to unlock from the more than 240 billion photos users have uploaded — and continue to add at a rate of 350 million per day.