Meta is seeking a Research Engineer to join our Llama Large Language Model (LLM) Research team. This teams works with VLLMs; and leverages knowledge in areas like vision encoders, data filtering/curation for pre and post-training, RLHF, responsible AI and model controllability. We have an interest in producing and applying new science/systems/technologies to develop and responsibly release vision large language models.

AI Research Scientist, VLLM (vision large language models) - Generative AI Responsibilities

• Lead, collaborate, and execute on developing scalable and effective data curation, model development and eval systems that push forward the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation research.
• Work towards long-term ambitious research/development goals, while identifying intermediate milestones.
• Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results.
• Mentor other team members. Play a significant role in healthy cross-functional collaboration.
• Prioritize research and development that can be applied to Meta's product development.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• PhD in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, or a related technical field.
• 4+ years of Experience holding an industry, faculty, academic, or government researcher position.
• Accepted Paper Contributions at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL).
• Knowledge of deep learning and neural networks.
• Experience working with machine learning libraries like Pytorch.
• Familiar with scripting languages such as Python and shell scripts.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry research & development experiences in generative AI and LLM research.
• Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and different perspectives to determine a path forward.
• Fluent in Python and PyTorch (or equivalent).
• First-Author publications & track record at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL).

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$177,000/year to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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