Facebook
Research Scientist Manager, AI
Facebook, Redmond, Washington, United States, 98052
Summary:
The Wearables AI Org at Meta is seeking a strong technical leader to join our team and work on the next generation of AI Experiences on wearable devices. As a technical leader in the team, you will play a critical role in building the core AI tech powering the experiences on Meta's Smart Glasses, AR Glasses, Quest devices and AI-centric wearables. We conduct research and engineering to build state-of-the-art LLMs to support on-device and on-server use cases, optimize them for natural voice interaction, and deliver knowledge-grounded, actionable, personalized AI. We are looking for a strong AI Research Manager who has a background in speech understanding or NLP, with experience in areas like conversational AI; speech and audio processing; sentiment analysis; component and end-to-end evaluation; data processing for pre-training and fine-tuning; responsible AI & LLM alignment; reinforcement learning for language model tuning; efficient training and inference; and/or multilingual and multimodal modeling. Last year we launched the AI Assistant on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and we are working on making it a truly human-like Assistant that can see what you see and hear what you hear, helping users get things done in the most ubiquitous way.
Required Skills:
Research Scientist Manager, AI Responsibilities:
Support and grow a team of AI, Speech and NLP experts
Develop technical vision, long-term strategy and set direction for the team and the organization
Drive execution of developing models and systems that are crucial to the end user experience
Present the team's work and plans in cross-company executive forums as well as to the scientific community
Communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with clients and peer teams to facilitate cross-functional projects
Minimum Qualifications:
Experience and track of record in landing large product impacts in a fast-paced environment 5+ years of hands-on experience in large language model, Speech, NLP, and/or multimodal modeling, in the setting of both research and engineering development
2+ years of hands-on supporting and leading teams of software engineers and research scientists
Experience in developing large-scale AI services
Experience with cross functional collaboration with product and platform teams, as well as non-engineering functions
Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management
Preferred Qualifications:
PhD in deep learning, artificial intelligence, and/or related technical field
Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research. Hands-on knowledge of training and fine-tuning LLMs
Experience and knowledge of ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.
Experience and knowledge of multi-modal modeling and computer vision
First author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)
Public Compensation:
$177,000/year to $251,000/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 stereotypes, 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@fb.com .
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The Wearables AI Org at Meta is seeking a strong technical leader to join our team and work on the next generation of AI Experiences on wearable devices. As a technical leader in the team, you will play a critical role in building the core AI tech powering the experiences on Meta's Smart Glasses, AR Glasses, Quest devices and AI-centric wearables. We conduct research and engineering to build state-of-the-art LLMs to support on-device and on-server use cases, optimize them for natural voice interaction, and deliver knowledge-grounded, actionable, personalized AI. We are looking for a strong AI Research Manager who has a background in speech understanding or NLP, with experience in areas like conversational AI; speech and audio processing; sentiment analysis; component and end-to-end evaluation; data processing for pre-training and fine-tuning; responsible AI & LLM alignment; reinforcement learning for language model tuning; efficient training and inference; and/or multilingual and multimodal modeling. Last year we launched the AI Assistant on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and we are working on making it a truly human-like Assistant that can see what you see and hear what you hear, helping users get things done in the most ubiquitous way.
Required Skills:
Research Scientist Manager, AI Responsibilities:
Support and grow a team of AI, Speech and NLP experts
Develop technical vision, long-term strategy and set direction for the team and the organization
Drive execution of developing models and systems that are crucial to the end user experience
Present the team's work and plans in cross-company executive forums as well as to the scientific community
Communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with clients and peer teams to facilitate cross-functional projects
Minimum Qualifications:
Experience and track of record in landing large product impacts in a fast-paced environment 5+ years of hands-on experience in large language model, Speech, NLP, and/or multimodal modeling, in the setting of both research and engineering development
2+ years of hands-on supporting and leading teams of software engineers and research scientists
Experience in developing large-scale AI services
Experience with cross functional collaboration with product and platform teams, as well as non-engineering functions
Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management
Preferred Qualifications:
PhD in deep learning, artificial intelligence, and/or related technical field
Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research. Hands-on knowledge of training and fine-tuning LLMs
Experience and knowledge of ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.
Experience and knowledge of multi-modal modeling and computer vision
First author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)
Public Compensation:
$177,000/year to $251,000/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 stereotypes, 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@fb.com .
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