Frontier AI Research Engineer

Meta; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is hiring Research Engineers to work at the intersection of frontier AI and real-world product impact. You will be embedded in Facebook’s ecosystem, shaping how people discover content, connect with creators, and interact with each other.

You’ll contribute to post-training pipelines, evaluation methods, and production serving systems, tackling open research questions with immediate product consequences. This role offers ownership and strong influence on technical direction at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Formal technical lead experience with cross-functional impact.
• Strong engineering background; PhD not required.
• Experience in AI/ML environments and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to training of multimodal foundation models for product use-cases.
• Spearhead data sourcing and curation for pre/mid/post-training stages.
• Lead research on multimodal reasoning and generation with direct product impact.

Skills

Lead experience

AI/ML background

Data pipelines & versioning

Cross-team influence

Engineering excellence

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Job description

Meta is hiring Research Engineers to work at the intersection of frontier AI and real-world product impact. You will be embedded in Facebook’s ecosystem, shaping how people discover content, connect with creators, and interact with each other.

You’ll contribute to post-training pipelines, evaluation methods, and production serving systems, tackling open research questions with immediate product consequences. This role offers ownership and strong influence on technical direction at scale.