AI Research Engineer

The role is an AI engineer in the FAIR team to execute its engineering tasks. The team aims at driving innovation towards superintelligence from the perspective of developing self-improving agent frameworks, test-time compute scaling, multi-agent systems, data curation algorithms for perception, and more efficient research tools.

In this role, you will be embedded into the team and other FAIR collaborators to convert ideas into implementation and solutions. You will build new algorithms, new functionalities, and new architectures in our research platforms. You will participate in the team publication effort to turn works into broad research outcomes and push the research frontier in superintelligence.

Research assistant/engineer
- 2-4 years of experience in LLMs, foundation models, data research who can conduct independent implementation and engineering works.
- Supporting researchers and FTEs to implement advanced research systems and technologies on cloud, in the domain of AI and machine perception
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and research teams in FAIR in computer vision and machine learning
- Play a crucial role in the definition and execution of system implementation roadmaps

Minimum Qualifications
- Two years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, LLMs, Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence
- One or more years of experience in C/C++, Python or Rust
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, NLP, Computer Vision, Machine Learning or a related technical field
- Experience developing computer vision algorithms or computer vision infrastructure in C/C++, Python or Rust
- Experience in deep learning and PyTorch: basic level of understanding
- Experience with multi-agent systems/RL and eval of multi-agent system

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with distributed systems algorithm development
- Experience working in intersection of video-games and RL
- Industry experience working on projects such as: image/video generation
- MSc or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Machine Learning or related technical field

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This posting is for a contract assignment with Tundra Technical Solutions to provide services to Meta

The pay range that Tundra in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $70/hour - $75/hour.

Tundra’s benefits offering includes optional medical, dental, vision, retirement benefits, up to 15 Days PTO per annum and a New Child Benefit.

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