Research Engineer - Core ML - FB Search Team

Meta

full-time

Posted: July 30, 2025

Application Deadline: November 10, 2025

Number of Vacancies: 1

Job Description

Meta is seeking a Research ML engineer to join our Facebook Search team. We are part of a multi-year investment in a modern search experience across Instagram & Facebook that is complementary to our recommendation strategy. We are building search systems on a foundation of state-of-the-art AI technology, and re-engineering core components of Search like query and document understanding; query suggestions / autocomplete; building, fine tuning and distilling Large Language Models; and reinforcement learning for language model tuning.

Locations

  • Menlo Park, CA, USA

Salary

58,500 - 208,000 USD / yearly

Estimated Salary Rangehigh confidence

185,000 - 320,000 USD / yearly

Source: ai estimated

* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.

Skills Required

  • Machine Learningintermediate (AI/ML)
  • Deep Learningintermediate (AI/ML)
  • Natural Language Processingintermediate (AI/ML)
  • Pythonintermediate (Programming)
  • PyTorchintermediate (Frameworks)

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience (degree in Computer Science)
  • Research experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing (experience)
  • Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact (experience)
  • Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch (experience)
  • Experience with architectural patterns of large scale software applications (experience)
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment (experience)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Direct experience in Search / Recommendations (experience)
  • First author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL) (experience)
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience (degree in Computer Science)
  • A PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields (degree in AI)

Responsibilities

  • Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to push forward the state of the art in search and recommendation models
  • Define research goals informed by long-term product roadmaps
  • Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, developing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results
  • Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)
  • Work with a large and globally distributed team
  • Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts

Benefits

  • compensation: Bonus + equity + benefits

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