AI Research Engineer, PAR Media
full-time•Menlo Park•$8k - $257k
About this role
We are seeking AI Researchers to join the Product and Applied Research (PAR) Media group within Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).
As a member of the PAR Media group, you will drive innovation in image and video understanding, generation, and narrative creation at an unprecedented scale. We own the research, development and deployment of cutting edge multimodal models across Meta AI, FoA, and the entire Meta creator and developer ecosystem. Our work directly powers product roadmaps with flexible, state-of-the-art solutions designed to lead, not follow. We partner closely with AI product teams across Meta to translate our research into impactful, real-world experiences. This means we’re not just building technology…we’re building the future of how people create, communicate, and connect.
If you’re passionate about advancing the future of AI-driven media experiences and eager to make a tangible impact on billions of users, we invite you to join us on this journey.
$88.46/hour to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the training of next-generation multimodal foundation models, advance their capabilities in understanding, generation, and grounding, and enable them for downstream product use-cases
- Support creative data sourcing, high-quality pre/mid/post-training data curation, and scale and optimize data pipelines for multimodal large language models (LLMs)
- Lead, collaborate, and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation research, and prioritize research that can be directly applied to Meta’s product development
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years of industry research experience in LLM/NLP, computer vision, or related AI/ML models
- Experience as a formal technical lead, leading major technical initiatives with XFN impact, and/or influencing strategy across multiple teams
- Skilled in model training, data, or inference & efficiency for image, video, and/or related multimodal models
- Proficiency in media generation, understanding, and/or grounding
- Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks like PyTorch or Spark
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on frontier-quality/state-of-the-art Large Media Models
- Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a relevant technical field
- Demonstrated significant industry influence in the field of AI and/or published research in leading peer-reviewed conferences (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, CVPR, ICCV)
$88.46/hour to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
What you'll do
- Contribute to the training of next-generation multimodal foundation models and support data curation for large language models. Lead research initiatives that advance multimodal reasoning and generation applicable to Meta’s product development.
About Meta
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Meta pay for a AI Research Engineer, PAR Media?
Meta offers a competitive compensation package for the AI Research Engineer, PAR Media role. The salary range is USD 9k - 257k per year. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.
What does a AI Research Engineer, PAR Media do at Meta?
As a AI Research Engineer, PAR Media at Meta, you will: contribute to the training of next-generation multimodal foundation models and support data curation for large language models. Lead research initiatives that advance multimodal reasoning and generation applicable to Meta’s product development..
Is the AI Research Engineer, PAR Media position at Meta remote?
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