Meta
AI Research Scientist - MSL FAIR Foundations
$184K–$257K
Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Feb 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in machine learning engineering, machine learning research, or a related technical role.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience; PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
About the job
Develops and validates evaluations, benchmarks, and scalable tooling to measure frontier AI capabilities and guide model research and development.
What you'll do
- Curate benchmarks and build evaluation environments and datasets for frontier models.
- Develop reusable evaluation pipelines and tooling to assess the quality and reliability of evaluation suites.
- Implement research scientists’ technical vision for new benchmarks and evaluations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience, and a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, machine learning research, or a related technical role.
- Proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Experience independently delivering medium-to-large technical features and proven software engineering practices, including version control, testing, and code review.
Nice to have
- Peer-reviewed publications related to language model evaluation, benchmarking, or deep learning.
- Experience with language model post-training, deep learning systems, reinforcement learning environments, evaluation benchmarks for large language or multimodal models, distributed systems and data pipelines, evaluation frameworks and metrics, or open-source ML evaluation tools or benchmarks.
Pay
$184,000/year to $257,000/year (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch
AI focus
Measures and evaluates frontier AI capabilities through benchmarks, evaluation environments, datasets, and scalable pipelines, informing model research and development.
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