Research Scientist Manager, AI

$177,000 - $251,000/Yr

Meta - Redmond, WA

Full-time - Manager

Redmond, WA

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About the position

The Research Scientist Manager, AI at Meta is a pivotal role focused on leading a team to develop cutting-edge AI technologies for wearable devices. This position involves building the core AI technology that powers Meta's Smart Glasses, AR Glasses, Quest devices, and other AI-centric wearables. The manager will oversee research and engineering efforts to create state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) optimized for natural voice interaction, delivering personalized AI experiences. The role requires a strong technical leader with expertise in speech understanding and natural language processing (NLP).

Responsibilities

• Support and grow a team of AI, Speech and NLP experts
• Develop technical vision, long-term strategy and set direction for the team and the organization
• Drive execution of developing models and systems that are crucial to the end user experience
• Present the team's work and plans in cross-company executive forums as well as to the scientific community
• Communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with clients and peer teams to facilitate cross-functional projects

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in large language model, Speech, NLP, and/or multimodal modeling, in the setting of both research and engineering development
• 2+ years of hands-on supporting and leading teams of software engineers and research scientists
• Experience in developing large-scale AI services
• Experience with cross functional collaboration with product and platform teams, as well as non-engineering functions
• Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management

Nice-to-haves

• PhD in deep learning, artificial intelligence, and/or related technical field
• Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research
• Hands-on knowledge of training and fine-tuning LLMs
• Experience and knowledge of ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.
• Experience and knowledge of multi-modal modeling and computer vision
• First author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)

Benefits

• $177,000/year to $251,000/year base salary
• Bonus
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package