Meta · 2 weeks ago
AI Research Scientist, VLM (vision language models)
Menlo Park, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$184K/yr - $257K/yrMeta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. The AI Research Scientist role involves leading research in multimodal reasoning and generation, contributing to experiments, and mentoring team members to push the state of the art in generative AI.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Lead, collaborate, and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation research
Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, while identifying intermediate milestones
Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results
Work with a large team
Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts
Mentor other team members. Play a significant role in healthy cross-functional collaboration
Prioritize research that can be applied to Meta's product development
Push state of the art in multimodal generative AI
Explore new techniques for advanced reasoning and multimodal understanding for AI Assistants
Mentor and work with AI/ML engineers to find a path from research to production
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
A PhD in AI, computer science, or related technical fields
Publications in machine learning, computer vision, NLP, speech
Experience writing software and executing complex experiments involving large AI models and datasets
Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
Preferred
First (joint) author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)
Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research
Fluent in Python and PyTorch (or equivalent)
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
Meta
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
Founded in 2004
10001+ employees
Funding
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