AI Research Scientist, Modeling & ToolCalling - MSL

Meta

$160K — $190K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
  • PhD in progress or completed in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 2+ years of industry research experience in LLM, NLP, computer vision, or AI/ML models
  • Deep practical experience in LLM post-training
  • Proven track record as a technical lead on complex projects
  • Published research in top-tier peer-reviewed conferences like ACL, NeurIPS, or ICML

Responsibilities

  • Work across the entire LLM post-training stack
  • Build high-quality training data and design evaluations
  • Execute and iterate on post-training runs
  • Own end-to-end LLM capability 'hill-climbing'
  • Conduct research on improved training and data curation strategies
  • Lead complex technical projects from start to finish

Benefits

  • Opportunities for advanced research in a leading-edge field
  • Collaboration with top experts in AI and ML
  • Access to powerful research tools and resources
  • Flexible work environment within a forward-thinking company culture
  • Potential for career advancement within a renowned technology organization
Full Job Description
We are seeking AI researchers for the Modeling & ToolCalling team within Meta Superintelligence Labs. This team is focused on LLM post-training, with emphasis on advancing long-horizon agentic tool use, search, personalization, and other frontier capabilities required for models to operate effectively in real-world settings.

Responsibilities

Work across the full LLM post-training stack
• Building high-quality training data, and designing and running evaluations
• Execute and iterate on post-training runs
• Own end-to-end LLM capability "hill-climbing"
• Conduct research on improved training and data curation strategies
• Lead complex technical projects end-to-end

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 2+ years of industry research experience in LLM/NLP, computer vision, or related AI/ML models
• Deep, practical experience in LLM post-training
• Experience as a technical lead on a team and/or leading complex technical projects from end to end
• Published research in leading peer-reviewed conferences (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, CVPR, ICCV) and/or demonstrated significant industry influence in the field of AI

Preferred Qualifications
• Extensive experience working on long horizon agents, agentic tool use, personalization, and/or search
• Experience working on frontier-quality, state-of-the-art Large Language Models
• First-author publications at top peer-reviewed conferences (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, CVPR, ICCV)

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