AI Research Scientist, VLM (vision language models)

Meta

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • PhD in AI, computer science, or equivalent
  • Published work in machine learning, computer vision, NLP, or speech
  • Experience in software development and complex AI experiments
  • Familiarity with large AI models and data handling

Responsibilities

  • Lead research on multimodal reasoning and generation
  • Pursue ambitious long-term research goals with measurable milestones
  • Design experiments, write reusable code, and organize results
  • Collaborate within a large team on research initiatives
  • Contribute to publications and open-source projects
  • Mentor team members and support cross-functional collaboration
  • Focus research efforts on practical applications for product development

Benefits

  • Opportunity to mentor and develop skills within a large team
  • Engagement in cutting-edge research with potential industry impact
  • Contributions to significant publications in recognized AI forums
  • Access to collaborative tools and resources for research and development
  • Participation in open-source initiatives that enhance professional visibility
Full Job Description
• 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.

Responsibilities

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

Minimum Qualifications
• 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

Preferred Qualifications
• 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)

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