AI Research Scientist, Text Data Research - MSL

Position: AI Research Scientist, Text Data Research - MSL FAIR
Job Summary
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Meta is seeking AI research scientists to help us build the data foundation for Meta's most advanced Large Language Models. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop foundational models and tackling data challenges at scale.

Responsibilities
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• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop Meta’s next foundational models

• Advance our understanding of data research, such as how to overcome data walls and how best to create synthetic data

• Architect efficient and scalable data curation systems and pipelines

• Fundamentally improve our data velocity across workflows and projects by contributing to the advancement of data tooling

• Execute on high priority projects in pre-training, mid-training, or post-training data curation

• Apply specialized expertise in agentic data, synthetic data, reasoning data, web parser, coding data, data scaling laws, or datamix optimization

• Lead complex technical projects end-to-end

Qualifications
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Required
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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field

• 1+ year of industry research experience in LLM/NLP or related AI/ML models

• Experience owning and/or driving complex technical projects from end-to-end

• Practical experience with pre-training or mid-training data curation for large foundational models and experience working with organic, synthetic, agentic, or reasoning data for LLMs

• Published research in leading peer-reviewed conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP) and/or demonstrated significant industry influence in the field of AI

Preferred
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• Experience working on frontier-quality/state-of-the-art Large Language Models

• Multiple first-author publications in leading peer-reviewed conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP)

• Hands-on experience with modeling frameworks like Py Torch

• Hands-on experience on SQL and large-scale data handling, with familiarity of frameworks like Spark and Hive

Company
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Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, US, , with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.