Meta
Research Scientist - AI Safety Red Teaming
$184K–$257K
Menlo Park, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 8+ years conducting research in AI, machine learning, or a closely related field. Also requests experience leading at least one major AI research initiative.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience; PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent research experience.
About the job
Conduct and lead AI research, develop and evaluate machine learning methods, and translate research findings into scalable systems and product impact.
What you'll do
- Design and execute AI research programs and develop novel algorithms, architectures, and training methods.
- Lead research initiatives, evaluate results, and translate findings into production-ready solutions with engineering and product teams.
- Publish and present research, mentor teammates, and improve research infrastructure and workflows.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience leading a major AI research initiative from conception through publication or production deployment.
- Experience developing and implementing novel machine learning methods, including deep learning architectures, training at scale, or evaluation methodology.
- Track record of publishing at peer-reviewed AI venues; experience with large-scale distributed training of foundation models.
Nice to have
- Contributions to open-source AI research frameworks or widely cited work in multimodal learning, reasoning, generalization, or AI safety.
- Experience bridging foundational AI research and applied product impact, including collaboration on production systems.
Pay
$184,000/year to $257,000/year (base salary)
Tools
large-scale language modeling, multimodal learning, deep learning, distributed training, foundation models, pretraining, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback
AI focus
AI research spanning foundational and applied areas, including AI safety, alignment, language models, multimodal learning, reasoning, and generalization.
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