AI Research Engineer - Social Products (Technical Leadership)

Meta

$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience as an Applied AI Research Scientist or Engineer
  • Proficient in large scale model training and algorithm implementation
  • Experience evaluating speech-based systems
  • PhD in relevant technical field is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to training next-generation multimodal foundation models
  • Support data sourcing and optimize pipelines for large language models
  • Lead research that advances multimodal reasoning and generation
  • Collaborate on applying research to Meta's product development
  • Enhance capabilities for downstream product use-cases

Benefits

  • Join a team working at the forefront of AI application
  • Opportunity to impact billions of users directly
  • Work within Facebook's extensive ecosystem
  • Focus on cutting-edge research and development
  • Engage in collaborative team environments
Full Job Description
We're hiring Research Engineers to join teams across Meta working at the intersection of frontier AI and real-world product impact. You'll be embedded directly in Facebook's ecosystem, helping reimagine core experiences and reshape how people discover content, connect with creators, and interact with each other. The work spans some of the most bold bets in applied GenAI, including: - Building the post-training, evaluation, and serving systems that turn frontier LLMs into reliable, high-quality product experiences used by billions. - Building a general-purpose agentic platform that powers a wide range of GenAI products across Facebook -enabling teams to ship faster, safer, and at scale. - Building systems that enable capacity and cost optimizations through model fine-tuning, post-training and other techniques. - Adapting and scaling these systems across Meta's products.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the training of next-generation multimodal foundation models, advance their capabilities in understanding, generation, and grounding, and enable them for downstream product use-cases
• Support creative data sourcing, high-quality pre/mid/post-training data curation, and scale and optimize data pipelines for multimodal large language models (LLMs)
• Lead, collaborate, and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation research, and prioritize research that can be directly applied to Meta's product development

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with large scale model training, implementing algorithms, and evaluating speech-based systems
• 5+ YOE as an Applied AI Research Scientist or Applied AI Research Engineer

Preferred Qualifications
• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field
• Experience taking ideas from research to production

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