AI Research Scientist - Computer Vision

Meta • Boston, Massachusetts, United States • 3d ago

At Meta Reality Labs, we’re developing the input technologies that will define the future of the virtual and augmented reality computing platforms. We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our machine perception team in advancing the state-of-the-art of human understanding, action recognition and statistical text decoding. You will work with research scientists, software engineers and hardware engineers to design technical solutions in a multidisciplinary environment.

Responsibilities

Contribute to and apply research that advances Meta products by developing novel input technologies for VR, MR and AR systems based on computer vision and machine learning
Design and prototype interactive experiences and evaluate them through user research
Design and prototype data collection systems to accelerate machine learning
Collaborate and work across teams to develop concepts that advance the entire product pipeline (hardware, software, data collection, machine learning, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
PhD in Computer Science or a related field with published projects in the fields of machine learning, deep learning and/or computer vision
Proven experience in designing data collection protocols and quality control, manifested in solid contributions in constructing high quality computer vision and machine learning datasets
Technical knowledge across a range of topics including machine learning, optimization, Bayesian statistics and state estimation
Experience innovating or extending research ideas for new problem domains or for fitting new constraints
Interpersonal experience: cross-functional and cross-team collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)
Experience transferring technology from research in computer vision, machine perception or machine learning into a shipping product
Experience with joint hardware-software development and associated rapid prototyping
Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at AI conferences such as CVPR, ECCV/ICCV, SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL or similar

$154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits