Principal AI Research Scientist - Leadership & Strategy

Meta is seeking a Principal Research Scientist to join our Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, an organization focused on making research breakthroughs in AI. Individuals in this role are expected to be world-leading experts in research areas such as ML theory, Responsible AI, reinforcement learning, computer vision, audio, and/or NLP. To learn more about our research, visit https://ai.facebook.com/. The ideal candidate for this position will have a track record in producing new science that is seminal to understanding intelligence, with particular experience in building and analyzing large-scale models for vision, language, speech, or general agents.

AI - Research Scientist (Leadership) Responsibilities

• Influence and drive strategy for long-term ambitious research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines
• Form internal partnerships, influence, resolve conflict, build alignment, and work effectively across teams and disciplines throughout the company to execute the strategy
• Call out opportunities and risks across multiple research teams
• Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications
• Contribute research that can be applied to Meta product development
• Be a role model for inclusive behaviors and a culture that values, respects and taps into different backgrounds and perspectives
• Mentor researchers
• Make the company better through engaging in cross-company efforts like recruiting, cross-functional partnerships, diversity & inclusion initiatives, or site initiatives

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of work experience in a faculty, industry, or government research position with primary emphasis on AI research
• Ph.D. and established track record of leading influential research, e.g. as evidenced by high-impact publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, ACL, Interspeech and ICASSP)
• Experience building and executing on long-term research strategies
• Experience communicating research for public audiences of peers, as well as non-technical audiences
• Knowledge in a programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of work experience in a faculty, industry, or government research position with primary emphasis on AI research
• Track record of translating research into business impact
• Experience working with a variety of cross-functional peers and stakeholders (e.g., product managers, data scientists, designers, engineers, policy, communications, marketing)
• Experience in developing and debugging in Python or C/C++
• Experience and/or interest in managing research teams in an industrial setting