AI Research Engineer

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Employee count: 5000+

Salary: 177k-514000k USD

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We’re hiring Research Engineers to join teams across Meta working at the intersection of frontier AI and real-world product impact. You’ll be embedded directly in Facebook’s ecosystem, helping reimagine core experiences and reshape how people discover content, connect with creators, and interact with each other.

Requirements

Contribute to the training of next-generation multimodal foundation models
Advance their capabilities in understanding, generation, and grounding
Enable them for downstream product use-cases
Support creative data sourcing
High-quality pre/mid/post-training data curation
Scale and optimize data pipelines for multimodal large language models (LLMs)
Lead, collaborate, and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation research
Prioritize research that can be directly applied to Meta’s product development
Manage data pipelines and versioning

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision insurance
Flexible paid time off
401(k) retirement plan
Parental leave
Education assistance
Stock or stock equivalents
Flexible spending accounts
Employee discounts
On-site fitness center and wellness programs

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About the job

Apply before

May 30, 2026

Posted on

Mar 31, 2026

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid-level

Salary

Salary: 177k-514000k USD

Location requirements

United States

Hiring timezones

United States +/- 0 hours

About Meta

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Our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our products empower more than 3 billion people around the world to share ideas and offer support.

Our Story

When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented, virtual and mixed reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.

Our principles

They embody what we stand for and guide our approach to how we build technology for people and their relationships.

Give People a Voice

People deserve to be heard and to have a voice — even when that means defending the right of people we disagree with.

Build Connection and Community

Our services help people connect, and when they’re at their best, they bring people closer together.

Serve Everyone

We work to make technology accessible to everyone, and our business model is ads so our services can be free.

Keep People Safe and Protect Privacy

We have a responsibility to promote the best of what people can do together by keeping people safe and preventing harm.

Promote Economic Opportunity

Our tools level the playing field so businesses grow, create jobs and strengthen the economy.

Tech stack

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React Native

Django

Hydra Framework

JavaScript

Python

HTML5

Java

CSS 3

PHP

Objective-C

Hack

44 more

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Employee benefits

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Paid time off to vote

Up to 8 hours of paid voting time

Life insurance

Life insurance and survivor support

Financial coaching

Get access to financial coaching and tax education

Disability insurance

Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance.

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