Research Engineer, Media Data Research - MSL

Research Engineer, Media Data Research – MSL FAIR

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$70,670/year - $208,000/year

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop Meta’s next foundational models
• 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 video/image generation, video/image perception, OCR, data scaling laws, or data mixing
• Lead complex technical projects end-to-end

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 1+ year of industry research experience in LLM/LMM, computer vision, or related AI/ML models
• Experience owning and/or driving complex technical projects from end-to-end
• Practical experience with multimodal pre-training or mid-training data curation for large media perception or generation models
• Demonstrated data infrastructure and software background, and experience building data tooling and services
• Published research in leading peer-reviewed conferences (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, CVPR, ICCV) and/or demonstrated significant industry influence in the field of AI

• Experience working on frontier-quality/ state-of-the-art Large Language or Large Media Models
• Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Programming experience in Python and hands‑on experience with frameworks like PyTorch or Spark, or related distributed computing frameworks (Ray, Data Flow)
• Familiarity with SQL and file formats, such as Hive, Iceberg, Parquet, etc

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