Meta
Research Scientist, AI Language
$184K–$257K
Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of research or industry experience in natural language processing, large language models, or a closely related area of machine learning.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Conduct foundational and applied language-model research, taking projects from conception through publication and production integration for Meta AI products and services.
What you'll do
- Design and execute research on language models, including post-training, reasoning, alignment, tool calling, and evaluation.
- Develop model architectures, training objectives, data strategies, and evaluation frameworks; improve training pipelines and efficiency.
- Lead research projects and collaborate with engineering, product, and policy teams to integrate findings into production systems.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of research or industry experience in NLP, large language models, or a closely related machine-learning area.
- Experience leading complex research projects; peer-reviewed NLP or machine-learning conference publications.
- Hands-on large language model training, fine-tuning, or evaluation experience using frameworks such as PyTorch.
Pay
$184,000/year to $257,000/year (USD, base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
AI focus
Foundational and applied research on language understanding, generation, reasoning, alignment, post-training, instruction tuning, agentic tool calling, and evaluation; development and production integration of next-generation language models.
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