Research Engineer, Language - Content and User Understanding Team
full-time•New York, Menlo Park•$7k - $217k
About this role
Meta is seeking a Research Engineer to join content and user understanding team, with a focus of Large Language Model (LLM). We conduct focused research and engineering to build state-of-the-art LLMs. As a key driver of Meta's app growth, we're dedicated use LLM-powered world knowledge to deliver exceptional user experiences across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and more.
We are looking for engineers with a background in generative AI and NLP. Experience in areas like language model evaluation, data processing for pre-training and fine-tuning, LLM alignment, reinforcement learning for language model tuning, efficient training and inference, and/or multimodal modeling is desired.
$74.04/hour to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Responsibilities
- Build Multi-Modal LLM backbones
- Prepare human-labeled or auto-generated data for pre-training and fine-tuning
- Fine-tune/RLHF for downstream content understanding and user understanding tasks
- Model evaluation with human labeling or auto judge
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
- Understanding of architectural patterns of large scale software applications
$74.04/hour to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
What you'll do
- The Research Engineer will build multi-modal LLM backbones and prepare data for pre-training and fine-tuning. They will also fine-tune models for content and user understanding tasks and evaluate models using human labeling or automated methods.
About Meta
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