Research Engineer - Conversational AI - Reality Labs

2 Months ago • All levels • Research Development • $85,100 PA - $251,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Reality Labs seeks a Research Engineer for their Large Language Model (LLM) Research team. The role focuses on building state-of-the-art LLMs for on-device and on-server AI assistants. Responsibilities include designing methods and tools to advance LLM technology, defining research goals, conducting experiments (designing details, coding, evaluations, organizing results), adapting machine learning methods for parallel environments, collaborating globally, and contributing to publications and open-source projects. The ideal candidate possesses strong research engineering skills in generative AI, NLP, and experience with LLM evaluation, data processing, responsible LLMs, reinforcement learning, efficient training/inference, and multilingual/multimodal modeling.
Must have:
  • Generative AI & NLP expertise
  • LLM evaluation experience
  • Data processing for pre-training
  • Python & PyTorch proficiency
  • Large-scale model development
  • Experience with parallel environments
Good to have:
  • PhD in AI-related field
  • Publications at top AI conferences
  • Experience with responsible LLMs
  • Reinforcement learning for LLM tuning
  • Multilingual/multimodal modeling
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

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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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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