Fundamental AI Researcher
Job in
New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listing for:
Meta
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-02-28
Job specializations:
-
Research/Development
Data Scientist, Artificial Intelligence, Research Scientist
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 74040 - 217000 USD Yearly
USD
74040.00
217000.00
YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Fundamental AI Researcher - FAIR
Location: New YorkSummary
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.
Fundamental AI Researcher - FAIR Responsibilities
Perform research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines, particularly on topics around reasoning, alignment and memoryPerform research that enables learning the semantics of data (images, video, text, audio, and other modalities)Work towards long‑term research goals, while identifying immediate milestonesInfluence progress of relevant research communities by producing publicationsOpen source high quality code and produce reproducible researchMinimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experienceA PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields2+ years of industry or equivalent Post Doctoral experience in relevant research areas, such as: machine learning, optimization, computer vision, natural language processingFirst‑authored publications at peer‑reviewed conferences, such as ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR and other similar venuesExperience holding an industry, postdoctoral, faculty, or government researcher positionResearch background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational statistics, applied mathematics, or related areasResearch publications reflecting experience in theoretical or empirical researchExperience in developing and debugging in Python or similar programming languagesExperience in analyzing and collecting data from various sourcesPreferred Qualifications
Research and engineering experience demonstrated via publications, grants, fellowships, patents, internships, work experience, open source code, and / or coding competitionsExperience in developing optimization algorithms and theory, distributed training of large‑scale machine learning models, and comparing alternative solutions, trade‑offs, and different perspectivesExperience collaborating in a team environment on research projectsPublic Compensation
$74.04/hour to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Industry
Internet
Equal Opportunity
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