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Fundamental AI Researcher - FAIR
Menlo Park$7k – $217k
About this role
Meta is seeking a researcher to join the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, a research organization focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in AI. In this role, you'll work with world-class researchers at FAIR on fundamental and exploratory research. The team focuses on research in developing learning algorithms with enhanced reasoning, memory and alignment methods. Our current projects span improved learning objectives, self-supervised learning objectives, higher-level reasoning, and new memory techniques. Our organization is motivated by producing new science to understand intelligence and technology towards achieving advanced machine intelligence.
$74.04/hour to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Responsibilities
- Perform research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines, particularly on topics around reasoning, alignment and memory
- Perform research that enables learning the semantics of data (images, video, text, audio, and other modalities)
- Work towards long-term research goals, while identifying immediate milestones
- Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications
- Open source high quality code and produce reproducible research
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor'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
- 2+ years of industry or equivalent PostDoctoral experience in relevant research areas, such as: machine learning, optimization, computer vision, natural language processing
- First-authored publications at peer-reviewed conferences, such as ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR and other similar venues
- Experience holding an industry, postdoctoral, faculty, or government researcher position
- Research background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational statistics, applied mathematics, or related areas
- Research publications reflecting experience in theoretical or empirical research
- Experience in developing and debugging in Python or similar programming languages
- Experience in analyzing and collecting data from various sources
Preferred Qualifications
- Research and engineering experience demonstrated via publications, grants, fellowships, patents, internships, work experience, open source code, and / or coding competitions
- Experience in developing optimization algorithms and theory, distributed training of large-scale machine learning models, and comparing alternative solutions, trade-offs, and different perspectives
- Experience collaborating in a team environment on research projects
$74.04/hour to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Company at a glance
Meta focuses on shaping the future of human connection by developing technologies that help people connect, form communities, and grow businesses, including moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive AR/VR experiences.
IndustrySoftware Development
Team Size10000+
Location
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Culture & values
There is an emphasis on starting with an open mind and engaging with empathy when discussing ideas.
Comments violating Community Standards will be removed or hidden, and people are expected to treat everybody with respect.
Interactions should be kept constructive to learn about and grow understanding of others.
Moderators uphold guidelines to benefit everyone, every day.
The culture promotes a growth mindset by learning from interactions and expanding understanding.
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