AI Safety Research Scientist: Red Teaming

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to advance the frontiers of artificial intelligence across foundational and applied research domains. In this role, you will conduct original AI research with the potential to shape the next generation of intelligent systems, spanning areas such as large language models, multimodal learning, reasoning, generalization, and AI alignment.

You will work within a collaborative research environment, translating scientific breakthroughs into real-world impact across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience conducting research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or a closely related field, including industry or academic research settings.
• Experience leading at least one major AI research initiative from conception through publication or production deployment.
• Experience developing and implementing novel machine learning methods, including deep learning architectures, training at scale, or evaluation methodology.
• Demonstrated track record of publishing research at peer-reviewed AI venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, CVPR, or equivalent.
• Experience communicating complex research findings in writing and presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with large-scale distributed training of foundation models, including pretraining, fine-tuning, or reinforcement learning from human feedback.
• Contributions to open-source AI research frameworks or widely cited work in areas such as multimodal learning, reasoning, generalization, or AI safety.
• Experience bridging foundational AI research and applied product impact, including collaborating with engineering teams on production systems.
• PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent research experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute original AI research programs across foundational areas.
• Develop and evaluate novel algorithms, architectures, and training methodologies.
• Implement the most technically challenging components of research systems with rigorous experimental design.
• Define metrics and evaluation frameworks to measure progress.
• Lead the technical design of research initiatives and coordinate with engineering teams.
• Translate research findings into scalable, production-ready solutions.
• Mentor researchers and engineers on AI research methodology.
• Communicate outcomes through reports, publications, and conferences.
• Identify and improve research infrastructure, tooling, and experiments workflows.
• Contribute to recruiting by articulating the team's research vision.

Skills

AI research

Machine learning

Deep learning

Multimodal learning

Scientific publishing

Public speaking

Team leadership

Production systems collaboration

Education

PhD in Computer Science / AI / ML / Statistics

Job description

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to advance the frontiers of artificial intelligence across foundational and applied research domains. In this role, you will conduct original AI research with the potential to shape the next generation of intelligent systems, spanning areas such as large language models, multimodal learning, reasoning, generalization, and AI alignment.

You will work within a collaborative research environment, translating scientific breakthroughs into real-world impact across