AI Research Scientist, Multimodal Perception

Meta is seeking Research Scientists to join Meta Reality Labs organization to work on making significant advances in vision and multi-modal perception. You will work on vision models, image and video understanding and sensor fusion. The team builds efficient on-device models that will be the foundation for a new paradigm in how we perceive the world. You will work with a highly interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and cross-functional partners with a broad range of experiences, perspectives, approaches, and backgrounds and access cutting-edge technology, resources, and research facilities.

• Build models that can understand images and videos
• Conduct research and work with efficient vision encoders, multi-modal LLMs
• Define, build and benchmark new capabilities needed for the next generation of AI
• Train and optimize state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies
• Work with and create large datasets, and contribute to data annotation engines

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• AI Research Scientist, multimodal perception (PhD)
• Research Experience in deep learning, computer vision, robotics, or AI infrastructure
• Experience with Python and Py Torch
• Experience developing software and executing complex experiments
• Experience communicating research for public audiences of peers
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

• Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and different perspectives to determine a path forward
• Demonstrated research and software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. Git Hub)
• Research experience with efficiency as a focus
• Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment
• Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops, journals or conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS or similar

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and Whats App further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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$122,000/year to $181,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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