AI Research Scientist, VLLM (vision large language models)

Facebook; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented AI Research Scientist to drive forward the cutting-edge of multimodal reasoning and generation research. This role involves leading ambitious research projects, mentoring engineers, and contributing to significant publications. You will work collaboratively with a large team to explore new techniques in generative AI, ensuring your findings can be applied to product development. If you are passionate about advancing AI technology and have a strong background in research, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the field.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Strong background in AI research with a focus on multimodal reasoning.
• Experience in mentoring AI/ML engineers and conducting complex experiments.

Responsibilities

• Lead research in multimodal reasoning and generative AI.
• Mentor team members and contribute to publications and open-source efforts.
• Design experiments and contribute to product development.

Skills

Multimodal generative AI

AI/ML mentoring

Software development

Experimental design

Publications in machine learning

Python

PyTorch

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

PhD in AI or related fields

Job description

Summary:

• Lead, collaborate, and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation research.
• Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, while identifying intermediate milestones.
• Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results.
• Work with a large team.
• Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts.
• Mentor other team members. Play a significant role in healthy cross-functional collaboration.
• Prioritize research that can be applied to Meta's product development.

Required Skills:

AI Research Scientist, VLLM (vision large language models) Responsibilities:

1. Push state of the art in multimodal generative AI
2. Explore new techniques for advanced reasoning and multimodal understanding for AI Assistants
3. Mentor and work with AI/ML engineers to find a path from research to production

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
2. A PhD in AI, computer science, or related technical fields.
3. Publications in machine learning, computer vision, NLP, speech
4. Experience writing software and executing complex experiments involving large AI models and datasets.
5. Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research.
2. First (joint) author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL).
3. Fluent in Python and PyTorch (or equivalent)

Public Compensation:

$177,000/year to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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