Research Scientist, Fair Core Learning and Reasoning

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Paris, France

Research Scientist at Meta's FAIR Core Learning and Reasoning team in Paris, focusing on fundamental advancements in generative models and LLMs, including data efficiency and continual learning. The role spans research, engineering, and deployment, with an emphasis on publishing and open-sourcing.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and execute research to advance 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 related quantitative discipline
  • First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences
  • Experience with training, fine-tuning, and experimentation on foundation models
  • PyTorch

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience communicating research findings and complex technical ideas through publications, presentations, or design documents to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

What the JD emphasized

  • Hold first-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
  • Demonstrated experience with training, fine-tuning, and experimentation on foundation models beyond black-box usage

Other signals

  • fundamental research
  • generative models
  • LLMs
  • data efficiency
  • continual learning
  • foundation models