Vision AI Research Scientist — 3D & Generative CV

Meta; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist in Computer Vision to advance AI research across perception, 3D scene understanding, and generative vision models. You will design original CV research, train large-scale models, and translate findings into scalable capabilities for AR/VR and content understanding systems.

The role requires a PhD in a related field and 2+ years of CV research experience, with strong publication history and ability to collaborate across product and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• PhD in computer vision, machine learning, computer science, or related field.
• 2+ years of research in computer vision (3D reconstruction, SLAM) or related areas.
• Experience developing/training deep learning models (PyTorch).
• Experience implementing and evaluating vision algorithms with rigorous experiments.
• Experience communicating research findings via publications or talks.
• Must obtain US work authorization at hire and maintain it during employment.

Responsibilities

• Design and conduct original research in computer vision (3D reconstruction, scene understanding, generative modeling).
• Develop/train deep learning models on large-scale image/video datasets.
• Implement and evaluate novel vision algorithms and benchmark against state-of-the-art methods.
• Contribute to training dataset creation and annotation pipelines.
• Translate research findings into production-ready prototypes with engineering teams.
• Publish research results at leading venues in CV/ML.
• Contribute to shared research codebases and ensure reproducibility.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to align research with goals.
• Instrument experiments with logging/evaluation metrics to support data-driven decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing vision systems and propose new directions.

Skills

Research experience

PyTorch

Publications

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

PhD in computer vision/ML/CS

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist in Computer Vision to advance AI research across perception, 3D scene understanding, and generative vision models. You will design original CV research, train large-scale models, and translate findings into scalable capabilities for AR/VR and content understanding systems.

The role requires a PhD in a related field and 2+ years of CV research experience, with strong publication history and ability to collaborate across product and engineering teams.