Research Engineer, Language - Generative AI

Job Description

About the Role

Meta is seeking a Research Engineer to join our Large Language Model (LLM) Research team. We conduct focused research and engineering to build state-of-the-art LLMs, which we often open-source, like our team's recent Llama 2. We are looking for strong engineers who have a background in generative AI and NLP, with experience in areas like language model evaluation; data processing for pre-training and fine-tuning; responsible LLMs; LLM alignment; reinforcement learning for language model tuning; efficient training and inference; and/or multilingual and multimodal modeling.

Key Responsibilities

Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to push forward the state of the art in large language models
Define research goals informed by practical engineering concerns
Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results
Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)
Work with a large and globally distributed team
Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts

Requirements

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 PyTorch
Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications

Nice to Have

A PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields
Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
First author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)
Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience
Research experience in machine learning, deep learning, and NLP
Programming experience in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch

Benefits & Perks

Competitive compensation ranging from $85.10/hour to $251,000/year plus bonus, equity, and benefits
Benefits offered by Meta (details available in the full benefits package)

Working at Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. The company values innovation, inclusivity, and building immersive experiences beyond screens, such as augmented and virtual reality. Meta is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

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