Research Engineer, Social Presence

We aspire to achieve a vision of social presence in VR and AR where people can interact with each other across distances in a way that is indistinguishable from in-person interactions. We are looking for research engineers who are excited about designing and implementing models that transform partial human information into realistic VR representations.You will partner with software developers and research scientists, collaborating together on the innovation necessary to build the foundations of social presence technology. At our lab, you will be exposed to facilities, algorithms, and data that are years ahead of anything else in existence today. We want people who seek both the best quality and widest reach in their work.

Research Engineer, Social Presence Responsibilities:

• Integrate foundation models into telepresence prototypes and live-systems
• Build and scale state-of-the-art algorithms and models that can transform information deficient inputs (e.g. cameras with limited visibility, pose, text, audio) into indistinguishable-from-reality VR representations (e.g. bodies, hair, clothes, motion, ...)
• Build scalable and distributed training algorithms and efficient data loading for large scale deep learning
  
  

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
• First author publications in computer vision, machine learning or computer graphics peer-reviewed conferences (e.g. CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, or SIGGRAPH, etc.)
• Experience with realistic 3D geometry/apperance estimation/generation or motion modeling
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record of achieving significant research results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships and/or patents
• Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning or a related field
• Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)
• 3 years of experience with prototyping algorithms in Python
• Experience with generative models such as Diffusion Models, GANs or VAEs for image and geometry generation
• Experience with Neural Radiance Fields, Vision Transformers or Large Language Models
  
  

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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$56.25/hour to $173,000/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.