Research Engineer, Language - Content and User Understanding Team

Research Engineer, Language - Content and User Understanding Team

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$88,460/yr - $257,000/yr

Meta is seeking a Research Engineer to join the content and user understanding team, with a focus on 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 are dedicated to using LLM‑powered world knowledge to deliver 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.

• 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

• 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 Py Torch
• Understanding of architectural patterns of large scale software applications

• First author publications at peer‑reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)
• Master'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
• Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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Not Applicable

Full‑time

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