AI Research Engineer, Media

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the training of next-generation multimodal foundation models, advancing capabilities in understanding, generation, and grounding
• Support creative data sourcing and high-quality pre/mid/post-training data curation
• Scale and optimize data pipelines for multimodal large language models (LLMs)
• Lead and execute research that pushes the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation
• Prioritize research that can be directly applied to Meta’s product development and real-world experiences

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 1+ year of industry research experience in LLM/NLP, computer vision, or related AI/ML models
• Skilled in model training, data curation, or inference and efficiency for image, video, and multimodal models
• Proficient in media generation, understanding, and/or grounding
• Experience owning and driving complex technical projects from end-to-end
• Programming proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks like PyTorch or Spark

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on frontier-quality or state-of-the-art Large Media Models
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a relevant technical field
• Demonstrated significant industry influence or published research in leading peer-reviewed conferences (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV)

About the Company

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. From Facebook and Instagram to WhatsApp and Messenger, we are moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to build the next evolution of social technology.