Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services 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. To apply, click “Apply to Job” online on this web page.
Research Scientist Responsibilities
- Research, design, and develop new optimization algorithms and techniques to improve the efficiency and performance of Meta’s platforms.
- Design and implement large-scale distributed software systems to serve large numbers of complex requests simultaneously and without failure.
- Utilize technical research background, train new ranking models, and run experiments.
- Create tools for migrating large bodies of user data across systems for new products, scalability efforts, and development of new core infrastructure.
- Use machine learning, statistics, or other data techniques to build algorithms.
- Suggest, collect, and synthesize system requirements from stakeholders and create effective feature roadmaps.
- Analyze and resolve computer challenges from a system engineering standpoint.
Minimum Qualifications
- PhD degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Requires completion of a graduate-level course, research project, or internship involving the following:
- 1. Research involving deep learning, NLP, or Generative AI
- 2. Research involving machine learning, applied mathematics, or physics
- 3. Developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact
- 4. Solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches
- 5. Leveraging synthetic data to improve the model performance
- 6. Developing and debugging using C/C++, Python, GraphQL, JavaScript, or shell scripts, and
- 7. On-device algorithm or distributed system development
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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.
$180,960/year to $200,200/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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