Research Scientist, Fair Sgt - New York

Meta Meta · Big Tech · New York, NY

Research Scientist at Meta's FAIR focused 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 models, with a requirement for publications at top AI conferences and experience with foundation models.

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
  • 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
  • Ability to conduct independent research
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas with peers

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

  • push the state-of-the-art in generative models
  • fundamental topics (data efficiency, continual learning) in large language models (LLMs) research
  • working across the full spectrum of research, engineering, and deployment for both product and frontier model efforts