AI Research Scientist, VLM (vision language models)
Meta
Apply to this job 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