Research Engineer - Conversational AI - Reality Labs

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Reality Labs is seeking a Research Engineer to join our Large Language Model (LLM) Research team for the device driven AI Assistant effort. We conduct focused research and engineering to build state-of-the-art LLMs to fit on-device and on-server use cases. We are looking for strong research 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. We collaborate closely with Meta GenAI and FAIR orgs to produce SOTA research and results.Research Engineer - Conversational AI - Reality Labs 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.

Minimum Qualifications

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.

Preferred Qualifications

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

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$85.10/hour to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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Jun 10, 2025

Posted on

Apr 11, 2025

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid-level

Salary

Salary: 170k-251k USD

Location requirements

United States

Hiring timezones

United States +/- 0 hours

Job categories

ML Research Engineer Research Engineer Dialogue Systems Engineer AI Researcher

Skills

Large Language Models NLP Machine Learning Deep Learning Data Processing Reinforcement Learning Python PyTorch Multilingual Modeling Architecture Generative AI Model Inference WhatsApp

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