POSTED Nov 4
Research Engineer - Conversational AI - Reality Labs
at Meta ⋅ Sunnyvale, CA, Redmond, WA, Menlo Park, CA, Burlingame, CA, New York, NY
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.
- 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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$85.10/hour to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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