Research Scientist, Fair Sgt - Paris

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Paris, France

Research Scientist role at Meta's FAIR in Paris focusing on fundamental research in generative models and LLMs, including data efficiency and continual learning. The role involves innovation, leading research, experimental design, implementation, evaluation, and publication.

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
  • Training foundation models
  • Fine-tuning foundation models
  • Experimentation on foundation models
  • PyTorch
  • Independent research
  • Communication of complex ideas

What the JD emphasized

  • 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