Research Scientist, Multi-Modal Understanding & Synthesis

Meta • Redmond, WA • 1h ago

Summary:

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to drive foundational research in multi-modal understanding, synthesis, and world models. In this role, you will advance the state of the art in building AI systems that perceive, reason across, and generate content spanning vision, language, audio, and other modalities. You will develop world models that learn rich internal representations of human behavior, enabling prediction, planning, and simulation. Collaborating with world-class researchers and engineers, you will define research directions, publish influential work, and translate breakthroughs into technologies that power Meta's next-generation AI products.

Required Skills:

Research Scientist, Multi-Modal Understanding & Synthesis Responsibilities:

Lead original research in multi-modal learning, developing architectures and algorithms that unify understanding and generation across vision, language, audio, and other modalities

Design and build world models that learn predictive representations of human behavior, supporting capabilities such as simulation, planning, and reasoning

Drive end-to-end research projects from problem formulation and dataset curation through model development, evaluation, and integration into real-time proto@types

Develop novel approaches for multi-modal synthesis, enabling coherent generation of images, video, text, and audio from unified representations

Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and metrics to measure progress in multi-modal reasoning and world modeling

Mentor other engineers and researchers on the team, providing technical guidance on multi-modal architectures, generative models, and research best practices

Publish research findings at top-tier peer-reviewed venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and CVPR to advance the broader scientific community

Minimum Qualifications:

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

PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, or a closely related field

6+ years of experience conducting AI research in multi-modal learning, generative models, or world models, including experience leading major research initiatives from conception through publication or production deployment

Experience implementing and evaluating multi-modal systems using deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, with proficiency in Python

Experience publishing original research in peer-reviewed machine learning or AI venues

Experience driving cross-functional technical decisions and communicating research findings and trade-offs to both research and engineering audiences through written documents and presentations

Experience with techniques spanning multiple modalities such as vision-language models, multi-modal transformers, or cross-modal representation learning

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience developing large-scale multi-modal foundation models or vision-language models

Experience with world models, predictive learning, or model-based reinforcement learning for planning and reasoning

First-author publications at top-tier venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, or CVPR demonstrating contributions to multi-modal learning, generative models, or world models

Public Compensation:

$184,000/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereo@types, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@meta.com.

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