Research Scientist, AI, Formal and informal Reasoning
Meta
Apply to this job Paris, France Until 8/22/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted May 11, 2026 Last posted May 11, 2026
Job description
Description
Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to join its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) organization, focused on making significant advances in LLMs reasoning, using reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation and advanced scaffolding/agentic techniques, partially with a focus on formal and informal maths. You will have the opportunity to work with a broad and highly interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and cross-functional partners, and will have access to cutting edge technology, important resources, and research facilities.
Responsibilities
Lead, collaborate, and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in reasoning research, with an initial focus on formal and informal mathematical reasoning Work towards long-term high-stakes research goals, while identifying intermediate milestones Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, implement reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts Mentor other team members. Play a significant role in healthy cross-functional collaboration
Qualifications
Holds a PhD in the field of Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar quantitative field Experience training and evaluating large models on State-of-the-Art codebases and developing new architectures, losses and training recipes First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) Experience in training, fine-tuning, and/or experimenting with foundation models beyond black-box use Experience working with SOTA Reinforcement Learning codebases and familiarity with one or more Machine Learning frameworks (e.g. pytorch, VERL, …) Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment Familiarity with the Lean 4 language and ecosystem and mathematical expertise Experience with communicating complex research for public audiences of peers
About this role
Summary
Conducts research on reasoning with large AI models, especially formal and informal math, leading experiments and publications.
Job title
Research Scientist, AI, Formal and informal Reasoning
Experience level
doctorate
Industry
technology
Location requirements
Paris, France; on-site position with possible remote collaboration
Salary
Not specified
Visa sponsorship
H-1B sponsor history
Management role
No
Skills & keywords
Required skills
PhD in Computer Science or Mathematicstraining large modelspeer-reviewed AI publicationsreinforcement learningPyTorchformal and informal reasoning
Preferred skills
Lean 4 languagemathematical expertiseopen source contributionscommunication skills
Specializations
artificial intelligencemachine learningmathematical reasoningreinforcement learninglarge language models
Locations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Paris, France
On-site City