AI Research Engineer

Meta Meta · Big Tech · United States +2 · Remote

Meta is seeking a Research Engineer to work on frontier AI and real-world product impact within Facebook's ecosystem. The role involves building post-training, evaluation, and serving systems for LLMs, developing an agentic platform, optimizing systems through fine-tuning, and adapting these across Meta's products. The position offers end-to-end ownership, the opportunity to work on unsolved research questions with product consequences, and high autonomy in shaping technical direction for GenAI products used by billions.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Support creative data sourcing, high-quality pre/mid/post-training data curation, and scale and optimize data pipelines for multimodal large language models (LLMs)
  3. 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

Skills

Required

  • Experience as a formal technical lead, leading major technical initiatives with XFN impact, and/or influencing strategy across multiple teams
  • Experience working in AI/ML environments
  • Can manage data pipelines and versioning

Nice to have

  • PhD in ML

What the JD emphasized

  • post-training
  • evaluation
  • serving systems
  • agentic platform
  • fine-tuning
  • multimodal foundation models
  • multimodal reasoning and generation research

Other signals

  • building post-training, evaluation, and serving systems
  • building a general-purpose agentic platform
  • adapting and scaling these systems across Meta’s products
  • product LLM work at singular scale
  • end-to-end ownership
  • unsolved problems
  • high autonomy
  • shipping to real users at scale