AI Research Scientist - Fair Social Intelligence

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Bellevue, WA +1

Research Scientist to contribute to Social Intelligence within complex multi-agent ecosystems, bridging centrally orchestrated multi-agent systems and social reasoning paradigms. Drive research focused on enabling autonomous agents to navigate the 'coordination bottleneck' through the development of Theory of Mind (ToM), intent modeling, and emergent social behaviors. Synthesize principles from reinforcement learning, game theory, and behavioral science to make agents capable of sophisticated alignment, ensuring ethical operation within human-centric environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform research to advance the state of the art in our multi-agent ecosystem
  2. Work with researchers and engineers in a highly collaborative environment to achieve goals and milestones
  3. Influence the future of research in frontier modeling with detailed technical reports
  4. Work towards long-term goals, while identifying intermediate milestones
  5. Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications

Skills

Required

  • PhD in AI, computer science, data science, science/engineering, or related technical fields
  • First-authored or last-authored publications at peer-reviewed conferences
  • 1+ years experience holding an industry, postdoctoral, faculty, or government researcher position
  • Research background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational statistics, or applied mathematics
  • Experience in developing and debugging in Python or similar programming languages
  • Research and engineering experience demonstrated via publications, grants, fellowships, patents, open source code
  • Collaborating in a team environment on research projects
  • Applying AI systems to solve science and engineering problems

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

What the JD emphasized

  • First-authored or last-authored publications at peer-reviewed conferences, such as ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, and other similar venues
  • Research background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational statistics, or applied mathematics
  • Experience in developing and debugging in Python or similar programming languages

Other signals

  • multi-agent systems
  • social reasoning
  • Theory of Mind
  • intent modeling
  • cooperation
  • coordination
  • negotiation
  • persuasion
  • reinforcement learning
  • game theory
  • behavioral science
  • alignment