Drimva

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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