• Research Engineer - Core ML - FB Search Team

    Meta (Menlo Park, CA)


    Summary:

    Meta is seeking a Research ML engineer to join our Facebook Search team. We are part of a multi-year investment in a modern search experience across Instagram & Facebook that is complementary to our recommendation strategy. We are building search systems on a foundation of state-of-the-art AI technology, and re-engineering core components of Search like query and document understanding; query suggestions / autocomplete; building, fine tuning and distilling Large Language Models; and reinforcement learning for language model tuning.

    Required Skills:

    Research Engineer - Core ML - FB Search Team Responsibilities:

    1. Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to push forward the state of the art in search and recommendation models

    2. Define research goals informed by long-term product roadmaps

    3. Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, developing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results

    4. Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)

    5. Work with a large and globally distributed team

    6. Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts

    Minimum Qualifications:

    Minimum Qualifications:

    7. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

    8. Research experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing

    9. Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact

    10. Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch

    11. Experience with architectural patterns of large scale software applications

    12. Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

    Preferred Qualifications:

    Preferred Qualifications:

    13. Direct experience in Search / Recommendations

    14. First author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)

    15. Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

    16. A PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields

    Public Compensation:

    $70.67/hour to $208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

     

    **Industry:** Internet

    Equal Opportunity:

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