Research Scientist, Multi-Modal Human Understanding

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to advance multi-modal AI technologies for human understanding and synthesis. In this role, you will develop Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and video foundation models that enable machines to perceive, interpret, and generate rich representations of human behavior, expression, and interaction. Your research will span multi-modal reasoning, video understanding, and generative synthesis, enabling more natural and intuitive human-computer interaction at scale.

Research Scientist, Multi-Modal Human Understanding Responsibilities:

• Design and implement novel multi-modal architectures that fuse vision, language, and temporal signals for holistic human understanding
• Develop and train Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for tasks including visual question answering, image-text reasoning, and grounded human-centric understanding
• Build video foundation models capable of temporal reasoning, action synthesis and long-form video synthesis with applications to human behavior synthesis
• Research generative synthesis techniques for human-centric content including video generation, motion synthesis, and multi-modal content creation
• Conduct rigorous experiments to evaluate model performance across diverse benchmarks, analyze failure modes, and iterate on architectures to improve accuracy and generalization
• Contribute to the full research lifecycle from problem formulation and dataset curation through model development and evaluation
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
• 2 years of experience in multi-modal AI research, including hands-on work with Vision-Language Models, video understanding, or human-centric AI systems
• 2 years of experience implementing and training large-scale neural networks using frameworks such as PyTorch, with experience on transformer-based architectures
• Experience designing and executing experiments to evaluate multi-modal model performance, including quantitative analysis across vision, language, and video benchmarks
• Experience writing production-quality or research-quality code in Python for multi-modal AI applications
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing or fine-tuning Vision-Language Models for human understanding tasks
• Experience with video foundation models, temporal transformers, or large-scale video pretraining
• Track record of contributing to published multi-modal AI research at venues such as CVPR, ICCV, or NeurIPS
• Experience with generative models for human synthesis including diffusion models, GANs, or autoregressive models for video or motion generation
  
  

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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$122,000/year to $181,000/year bonus equity benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.