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Research Scientist - AI Safety Red Teaming

Meta· Artificial Intelligence
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Menlo Park, CA$184k - $257kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to advance AI across foundational and applied research, translating scientific breakthroughs into real-world impact within Meta's AI-powered products, while contributing to the scientific community through publications and open research.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute original research programs in artificial intelligence, including large-scale language modeling, multimodal learning, reasoning, or related foundational AI areas
  • Develop and evaluate novel algorithms, architectures, and training methodologies that advance the state of the art in AI research
  • Implement the most technically challenging components of research systems, ensuring rigor in experimental design, evaluation, and reproducibility
  • Define research metrics and evaluation frameworks to measure progress against long-term scientific and product objectives
  • Lead the technical design of research initiatives, including scoping, milestone planning, and cross-functional coordination with engineering and product teams
  • Translate research findings into scalable systems and production-ready solutions in collaboration with applied engineering teams
  • Mentor other researchers and engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and supporting their growth in AI research methodology
  • Communicate research outcomes through internal technical reports, external publications, and presentations at leading AI conferences and workshops
  • Identify and drive improvements to research infrastructure, tooling, and experimentation workflows to accelerate team-wide research velocity
  • Contribute to recruiting efforts by evaluating candidates and articulating the team's research vision and strategic priorities

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8+ years of experience conducting research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or a closely related field, including industry or academic research settings
  • Experience leading at least one major AI research initiative from conception through publication or production deployment
  • Experience developing and implementing novel machine learning methods, including deep learning architectures, training at scale, or evaluation methodology
  • Demonstrated track record of publishing research at peer-reviewed AI venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, CVPR, or equivalent
  • Experience communicating complex research findings in writing and presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences

Skills

Required:Large language modelsMultimodal learningReasoningEvaluation methodologyResearch leadershipPublishing research

Benefits

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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