Research Engineer, Computer Vision/Multimodal - Generative AI

Meta is seeking a Research Engineer with expertise in Computer Vision to join our Generative AI pillar. We conduct in-depth research and engineering to build state-of-the-art foundational models, which we often open-source, like our team’s recently released Llama 4. We push boundaries across multiple modalities (e.g., text, speech, image, video) and focus on critical domains such as pre-training, post-training, data training, safety, evaluation, agents, etc.Research Engineer, Computer Vision/Multimodal - Generative AI Responsibilities

• Lead, collaborate, and execute on developing scalable and effective data curation, model development and eval systems that push forward the state of the art CV and multimodal research.
• Work towards long-term ambitious research/development goals, while identifying intermediate milestones.
• Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, building reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results.
• Drive innovation through seamless collaboration, collective problem-solving, and XFN initiatives.
• Prioritize research and development that can be applied to Meta's product development.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry research or engineering experience.
• Experience training large-scale Computer Vision or related AI models/datasets.
• Fluent in Python and PyTorch (or equivalent).
• Experience leading large scale AI/ML technical projects.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or relevant technical field.
• Publication track record at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL).
• Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and varied points of view to determine a path forward.
• Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment.

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$85.10/hour to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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