AI Research Engineer (Product Impact)

Meta
New York, US
On-site

Job Description

Summary:

We are seeking passionate AI Research Engineers to join our dynamic teams at Meta, where you will work at the forefront of AI technology and have a genuine impact on real-world products. As part of our innovative environment, you'll be directly involved in reshaping core Facebook experiences, enhancing content discovery, creator connections, and user interactions. Immerse yourself in ambitious projects, including:

  • Developing evaluation and serving systems that transform advanced LLMs into seamless and high-quality experiences for billions of users.
  • Creating a versatile platform that fuels a variety of AI products across Facebook, enabling rapid, safe, and scalable shipment.
  • Implementing systems for capacity and cost optimizations through model fine-tuning and other innovative techniques.
  • Adapting and scaling these solutions across Meta's diverse products.

Why Join Us?

  • Product LLM Work at Unmatched Scale: Your decisions will influence billions of daily interactions.
  • End-to-End Ownership: You will be responsible for the entire lifecycle from training data to production metrics.
  • Challenge Yourself: Tackle unresolved questions in evaluating conversational AI at scale and fine-tune models for diverse creator profiles.
  • Be Part of a Hands-On Team: Enjoy high autonomy on critical projects with a lean, experienced team, where your voice matters in shaping technical direction.

In this role, your contributions could range from post-training pipelines and evaluation methodologies to production systems and building innovative AI products for real users.

AI Research Engineer Responsibilities:

  • Enhance next-generation multimodal foundation models by advancing their understanding, generation, and grounding capabilities for diverse product applications.
  • Contribute to imaginative data sourcing, and curate high-quality training data while scaling and optimizing data pipelines for multimodal LLMs.
  • Lead and collaborate on research that propels multimodal reasoning and generation, prioritizing applications that directly influence Meta's product development.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Demonstrated experience as a technical lead, guiding significant initiatives with cross-functional impact.
  • Strong engineering credentials (PhD in ML is not a requirement).
  • Experience in AI/ML environments.
  • Adept at managing data pipelines and version control.

Compensation:

The salary range is $183,997/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits.

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and other legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable laws. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in specific locations as required by law. We may utilize AI and machine learning technologies in our hiring process.

Meta is dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. Please inform us if you require any assistance or accommodations due to a disability.

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

Ai/mlMultimodal foundation modelsData pipelinesVersion controlLeadershipOwnershipInnovationAi technologyFacebook experiencesContent discovery

Salary

$183,997 - $257,000

year

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

senior

Posted

5/3/2026

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