[Hiring] Research Engineer, SysML @Meta

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Role Description

Meta is seeking Research Engineers to join Fundamental AI Research (FAIR). We are committed to advancing the field of artificial intelligence by making fundamental advances in technologies to help interact with and understand our world. We are seeking individuals passionate in solving systems challenges to sustainably accelerate our reach to human-level intelligence. Candidates will have an opportunity to make fundamental advances in systems and apply their ideas at an unprecedented scale.

The mission of Meta FAIR's SysML research is to advance the state of AI through open science innovations. We explore, design, and build ML systems and infrastructures at scale with usability, efficiency, and sustainability as design principles. Some aspects of this role include:

  • Enabling distributed training at an unprecedented scale through advancements and development in training library and authoring components, such as cuBLAS, cuDNN, FlashAttention.
  • Training performance acceleration through hardware-software co-design.
  • Carry out cutting-edge research to advance the science and technology of machine learning systems.
  • Perform research that enables learning the semantics of data (images, video, text, audio, and other modalities).
  • Devise better data-driven models of AI system design and optimization.
  • Contribute research that leads to innovations in:
    • Scalable machine learning systems.
    • Resource-efficient AI data and algorithm scaling.
    • Neural network architectures.
    • Memory and energy-efficient AI systems.
    • Environmentally-sustainable AI system and hardware designs.
  • Collaborate with researchers and cross-functional partners including communicating research plans, progress, and results.
  • Publish research results and contribute to research that impacts Meta product development.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Master's degree in the field of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4+ years of domain-specific industry experience in areas related to development in systems, computer architectures, compiler and programming languages, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
  • Experience with Python, C++, C, Rust or other related languages and with PyTorch framework.
  • Experience developing and optimizing systems for at-scale machine learning execution.
  • Experience devising data-driven models and real-system experiments and design implementation for AI system optimization.
  • Experience with scalable machine learning systems, resource-efficient AI data and algorithm scaling, or neural network architectures.
  • Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and different perspectives to determine a path forward.
  • Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

  • PhD in the field of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews).
  • Demonstrated research and software engineering experience via work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub).
  • Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops, journals or conferences such as MLSys, ISCA, ASPLOS, HPCA, PLDI, CGO, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or similar.
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).

Benefits

  • $154,003/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits.
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