Research Scientist, Omni-lingual (fair)

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Paris, France

Research Scientist role in Meta's FAIR organization focusing on frontier multilingual AI research, specifically knowledge transfer across languages. The role involves contributing to experiments, developing large-scale foundation models, and influencing research communities through publications. Requires a PhD and experience in NLP/speech processing, with a focus on multilingual AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Directly contribute to experiments to push forward multilingual capabilities in frontier multilingual language models
  2. Work with large data, and contribute to development of large scale foundation models
  3. Drive software design, implementation and evaluation of research solutions
  4. Help identify long-term ambitious research goals as well as intermediate milestones
  5. Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications

Skills

Required

  • PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence (AI), computer science, or related technical fields with 1+ years of experience in AI research
  • AI research experience in the domains of natural language processing and/or speech processing
  • First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, Interspeech, ICASSP, ASRU, SLT, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
  • Demonstrated experiencein communicating complex research for public audiences or peers
  • Experience developing machine learning algorithms in e.g. Python, PyTorch, C/C++
  • 2+ years of experience in AI research in a university, industry, or government lab
  • Significant experience in multilingual AI research

What the JD emphasized

  • First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences
  • Significant experience in multilingual AI research

Other signals

  • pushing the frontier
  • multilingual communication
  • knowledge transfer across languages
  • foundation models
  • large scale