Fundamental AI Researcher - Fair

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA +2

Research role focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in AI, particularly in reasoning, alignment, and memory. The role involves fundamental and exploratory research, developing learning algorithms, and contributing to the scientific understanding of intelligence and advanced machine intelligence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines, particularly on topics around reasoning, alignment and memory
  2. Perform research that enables learning the semantics of data (images, video, text, audio, and other modalities)
  3. Work towards long-term research goals, while identifying immediate milestones
  4. Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications
  5. Open source high quality code and produce reproducible research

Skills

Required

  • PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields
  • 2+ years of industry or equivalent PostDoctoral experience in relevant research areas
  • Experience in developing and debugging in Python or similar programming languages
  • Experience in analyzing and collecting data from various sources
  • Experience in developing optimization algorithms and theory, distributed training of large-scale machine learning models, and comparing alternative solutions, trade-offs, and different perspectives
  • Experience collaborating in a team environment on research projects

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • First-authored publications at peer-reviewed conferences
  • Research publications reflecting experience in theoretical or empirical research

Other signals

  • advancing the state-of-the-art in AI
  • fundamental and exploratory research
  • developing learning algorithms with enhanced reasoning, memory and alignment methods
  • producing new science to understand intelligence and technology towards achieving advanced machine intelligence