AI Research Scientist, VLM (vision language models)

Menlo Park, CA Until 8/21/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted April 2, 2026 Last posted April 21, 2026
Job description

Description

• Lead, collaborate, and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation research. • Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, while identifying intermediate milestones. • Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results. • Work with a large team. • Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts. • Mentor other team members. Play a significant role in healthy cross-functional collaboration. • Prioritize research that can be applied to Meta's product development.

Responsibilities

Push state of the art in multimodal generative AI Explore new techniques for advanced reasoning and multimodal understanding for AI Assistants Mentor and work with AI/ML engineers to find a path from research to production

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience A PhD in AI, computer science, or related technical fields Publications in machine learning, computer vision, NLP, speech Experience writing software and executing complex experiments involving large AI models and datasets Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment First (joint) author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL). Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research. Fluent in Python and PyTorch (or equivalent)
About this role

Summary

Research and develop multimodal AI models; collaborate, publish, mentor.

Job title

AI Research Scientist, VLM (vision language models)

Experience level

doctoral level

Industry

software

Location requirements

Menlo Park, CA; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonPyTorchgenerative AImachine learningresearch experience in AI

Preferred skills

computer visionNLPcollaborative teamwork

Specializations

multimodal reasoninggenerative AImachine learningcomputer visionNLP
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Menlo Park, CA, USA

On-site City