Lensa
AI

Research Engineer, Language - Generative AI

Lensa · New York, NY · $12k

Actively hiring Posted 4 months ago

Lensa is a career site that helps job seekers find great jobs in the US. We are not a staffing firm or agency. Lensa does not hire directly for these jobs, but promotes jobs on LinkedIn on behalf of its direct clients, recruitment ad agencies, and marketing partners. Lensa partners with DirectEmployers to promote this job for META. Clicking "Apply Now" or "Read more" on Lensa redirects you to the job board/employer site. Any information collected there is subject to their terms and privacy notice.SummaryMeta is seeking a Research Engineer to join our Large Language Model (LLM) Research team. We conduct focused research and engineering to build state-of-the-art LLMs, which we often open-source, like our team’s recent Llama 2. We are looking for strong engineers who have a background in generative AI and NLP, with experience in areas like language model evaluation; data processing for pre-training and fine-tuning; responsible LLMs; LLM alignment; reinforcement learning for language model tuning; efficient training and inference; and/or multilingual and multimodal modeling.Required SkillsResearch Engineer, Language - Generative AI Responsibilities:
Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to push forward the state of the art in large language models
Define research goals informed by practical engineering concerns
Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results
Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)
Work with a large and globally distributed team
Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts

Minimum QualificationsMinimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Research experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing
Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact
Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch
Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications

Preferred QualificationsPreferred Qualifications:
A PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
First author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL).
Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research.

Public Compensation$88.46/hour to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefitsIndustry: InternetEqual OpportunityMeta 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 [email protected] you have questions about this posting, please contact [email protected]

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