AI Research Engineer, Media Generation (Audio / Video) - Generative AI
Meta
Marketing & Communications, Software Engineering, Data Science
Seattle, WA, USA
USD 85.1-251k / hour + Equity
Posted on Jul 30, 2025
AI Research Engineer, Media Generation (Audio / Video) - Generative AI
Seattle, WA • Full Time
Meta
AI Research
Artificial Intelligence
Meta is seeking a Research Engineer to join our Media Generation Data Research team. We are looking for experts in audiovisual generation models; with experience in areas like vision encoders, data filtering/curation for pre and post-training, RLHF, responsible AI and model controllability. The ideal candidate will have an interest in producing and applying new science/systems/technologies to help us develop and responsibly release media generation models.
AI Research Engineer, Media Generation (Audio / Video) - Generative AI Responsibilities
- Lead, collaborate, and execute on developing scalable and effective data curation, model development and eval systems that push forward the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation research
- Work towards long-term research/development goals, while identifying intermediate milestones
- Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results
- Work with a large team
- Mentor other team members and play a significant role in healthy cross-functional collaboration
- Prioritize research and development that can be applied to Meta's product development
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ year experience in AI
- Experience holding an industry, faculty, or government researcher position
- Publications in areas of machine learning, computer vision, NLP, or audio
- Experience with 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
- PhD in the field of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
- Direct experience in generative AI for video / audio
- First author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)
- Fluent in Python and PyTorch
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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.
$85.10/hour to $251,000/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.
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