Research Scientist, Language (PhD)

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to join Monetization Generative AI org. Individuals in this role are expected to be recognized experts in identified research areas such as natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning particularly including areas such as deep learning, language models and reinforcement learning. The ideal candidate should have a keen interest in producing new, open science to further language understanding research. Postdoc positions are one to two year fixed-term positions.

Research Scientist, Language (PhD) Responsibilities:

• Perform fundamental and applied research to push the scientific and technological frontiers of natural language processing
• Invent/improve novel data-driven paradigms for natural language understanding and generation
• Enable reasoning with language understanding and generation systems
• Develop the next generation of platforms for AI & language research

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• Experience in deep learning frameworks (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow), C, C , Python
• Experience in NLP frameworks like Hugging Face or other systems
• Experience in training and use of language models and Transformers for NLP
• Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops, journals or conferences in Machine Learning (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) and NLP (ACL, NAACL, EMNLP)
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated research and software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)
• Experience building systems based on machine learning and/or deep learning methods
• Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and diverse points of view to determine a path forward
• Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment
• Research experience in machine learning, representation learning, optimization, statistics, applied mathematics, or data science

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. 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 and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.