AI Specialist - Product and Applied Research

Menlo Park, CA

Job Description

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services 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.

Develop highly scalable algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning and neutral network methodologies

Suggest, collect, and synthesize requirements and create effective feature roadmap

Code deliverables in tandem with the engineering team

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

Perform specific responsibilities which vary by team

Research, design, and develop new algorithms and techniques to improve the efficiency and performance of Meta's platforms

Gather data for machine-learning training

train new ranking models and run experiments

Identify potential improvements in company's software and technology products

Research and present effects of current engineering efforts on Meta's market standing from an economic and game-theoretic point of view

Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules based models

Minimum Qualifications

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

Research and/or work in machine learning, NLP, reinforcement learning, deep learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, signal processing, data mining, artificial intelligence, information retrieval or computer vision

Java or C++, Perl, PHP or Python

Preferred Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field

3+ years experience as an Applied AI Research Scientist or an Applied AI Research Engineer

Experience with developing scalable machine learning models in at least one of the following areas: Crawling, indexing, extraction, retrieval, ranking, recommendations, measurement, tooling, evaluation, query understanding, planning, vector databases, or embeddings

Experience with large scale model training, implementing algorithms, and evaluating speech-based systems

Experience taking ideas from research to production

Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and broad points of view to determine a path forward

Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment

First author publications experience 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

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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