Research Scientist, Fair

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Paris, France

Research Scientist at Meta's FAIR focusing on fundamental advancements in generative models and LLMs, including data efficiency and continual learning. The role involves research, engineering, and deployment for both product and frontier model efforts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Innovate, lead, and execute pioneering research to push the state-of-the-art in generative models and LLM performance
  2. Systematically perform independent research, quickly adapting to new developments in the field
  3. Directly contribute to the experimental process, including designing details, implementing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results
  4. Contribute to publications, open-sourcing initiatives, and mentor other team members
  5. Ensure effective cross-functional collaboration

Skills

Required

  • PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a similar quantitative discipline
  • training foundation models
  • fine-tuning foundation models
  • experimentation on foundation models
  • PyTorch

Nice to have

  • work authorization in the country of employment
  • communicate complex ideas with peers

What the JD emphasized

  • first-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)

Other signals

  • data efficiency
  • continual learning
  • generative models
  • LLMs