AI Research Engineer - Social Products (technical Leadership)

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Bellevue, WA +2

Research Engineer role focused on applying frontier AI, specifically LLMs and multimodal models, to Meta's social products. The role involves building and scaling post-training, evaluation, and serving systems, as well as developing an agentic platform. It emphasizes end-to-end ownership from research to production, impacting billions of users.

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

  • large scale model training
  • implementing algorithms
  • evaluating speech-based systems
  • taking ideas from research to production

Nice to have

  • multimodal reasoning
  • multimodal generation
  • post-training pipelines (SFT, RLHF, synthetic data generation)
  • evaluation methodology (auto-judge design, benchmark construction, human-AI calibration)
  • production serving systems (RAG, memory, multi-modal generation)
  • multi-agent orchestration
  • agentic products
  • data sourcing
  • data curation
  • data pipelines for multimodal LLMs
  • frontier AI
  • GenAI

What the JD emphasized

  • post-training
  • evaluation
  • serving systems
  • agentic platform
  • fine-tuning
  • multimodal
  • research
  • product impact
  • billions of daily interactions
  • end-to-end ownership
  • production behavior
  • open research questions
  • shipping to real users at scale
  • multimodal foundation models
  • multimodal reasoning and generation research
  • applied to Meta’s product development
  • large scale model training
  • evaluating speech-based systems
  • taking ideas from research to production

Other signals

  • building post-training, evaluation, and serving systems
  • building a general-purpose agentic platform
  • adapting and scaling these systems across Meta’s products
  • end-to-end ownership
  • taking ideas from research to production