Research Engineer - Conversational AI - Reality Labs

Meta; Edison (NJ); On-site; USD 8,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Reality Labs is seeking a Research Engineer for their Large Language Model Research team focused on developing cutting-edge AI technologies. The role involves designing tools and methods to enhance language models, with an emphasis on collaboration and publication in top AI forums. A successful candidate will have strong qualifications in machine learning and natural language processing, further enhanced by extensive programming skills.

Benefits

Equity

Benefits

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field required.
• Research experience in machine learning/deep learning/NLP.
• Programming in Python with experience in frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design methods/tools for advancing large language models.
• Define research goals based on practical engineering concerns.
• Contribute to experiments and organize results.

Skills

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Natural Language Processing

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science

PhD in AI or related technical fields

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Reality Labs is seeking a Research Engineer to join our Large Language Model (LLM) Research team for the device driven AI Assistant effort. We conduct focused research and engineering to build state-of-the-art LLMs to fit on-device and on-server use cases. We are looking for strong research engineers who have a background in generative AI and NLP, with experience in areas like language model evaluation; data processing for pre-training and fine-tuning; responsible LLMs; LLM alignment; reinforcement learning for language model tuning; efficient training and inference; and/or multilingual and multimodal modeling. We collaborate closely with Meta GenAI and FAIR orgs to produce SOTA research and results.

Research Engineer - Conversational AI - Reality Labs Responsibilities

Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to push forward the state of the art in large language models.

Define research goals informed by practical engineering concerns.

Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results.

Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU).

Work with a large and globally distributed team.

Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Research experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing.

Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact.

Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch.

Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

A PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields.

Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research.

First author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL).

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About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

$85.10/hour to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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