Meta
Research Scientist, Multi-Modal Human Understanding
$122K–$181K
Pittsburgh, PA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
Burlingame, CA - Experience
- 2+ years of multimodal AI research and 2+ years implementing and training large-scale neural networks.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience; degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
About the job
Develops multimodal AI models that understand and generate human behavior, expression, and interaction across images, language, and video.
What you'll do
- Design multimodal architectures and develop Vision-Language Models for human-centric understanding.
- Build video foundation models for temporal reasoning, action synthesis, and video generation.
- Run experiments, evaluate benchmarks, analyze failures, and contribute across the research lifecycle.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience; degree must be completed before joining.
- 2+ years of multimodal AI research experience, including hands-on work with Vision-Language Models, video understanding, or human-centric AI systems.
- 2+ years implementing and training large-scale neural networks, including transformer-based architectures.
- Experience with Python, multimodal model evaluation, and developing or fine-tuning Vision-Language Models.
Nice to have
- Experience with video foundation models, temporal transformers, or large-scale video pretraining.
- Published multimodal AI research at venues such as CVPR, ICCV, or NeurIPS; experience with generative models for human synthesis.
Pay
$122,000/year to $181,000/year base salary
Tools
Vision-Language Models (VLMs), PyTorch, Python, transformer-based architectures, diffusion models, GANs, autoregressive models
AI focus
Research and develop multimodal AI for human understanding and synthesis, including video and motion generation.
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