AI Research Scientist, Vision Language Models

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  • Meta
  • Zurich, ZH
  • 3 weeks ago
Published
March 11, 2026
Location
Zurich, Switzerland
Category
Job Type

Job 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
Minimum 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
Preferred Qualifications

  • 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)
Key Skills
? Key Skills in dark blue have been inferred based on similar industry roles
ML LLM Product Development Python Pytorch Machine Learning NLP Computer Vision

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