Research Scientist, Central Applied Science, Privacy-Preserving ML (PhD)
Menlo Park, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City
We seek Research Scientists to identify new opportunities and help build scientifically rigorous systems focused on enabling new capabilities and improved performance. This role focuses on Meta’s large scale machine learning and analytics systems for Meta's products across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Reality Labs.
Our team's applied research includes incorporating approaches such as differential privacy for large scale model training, designing effective attacks, and evaluating practical risks in various applications including recommendation systems and generative models. We also pursue advancements in federated learning and on-device processing, where client-side applications include recommender systems for advertising and organic content, generative AI experiences, models, text prediction, and scene understanding.Research Scientist, Central Applied Science, Privacy-Preserving ML (PhD) Responsibilities
- Assess potential opportunities and execute world-class research associated with privacy-preserving techniques, federated learning, and on-device personalization.
- Design and prototype new algorithms or mechanisms, optimization methods, and system architectures.
- Derive theoretical formulations when necessary.
- Implement new algorithms or mechanisms, deploy them into internal or open-sourced libraries and tooling platforms, and conduct empirical studies on internal datasets to showcase value for real world applications.
- 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.
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
- Proficiency designing and implementing analytical and/or algorithmic solutions, tailored to particular business needs and tested on large data sets.
- Proficiency with at least one of the following technologies: (i) Differential Privacy, (ii) Privacy Attacks and Auditing for ML model risks, (iii) Federated Learning, (iv) On-Device Model Personalization.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
- Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, MobiCom, MobiSys, ICLR, etc.
- Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub).
- Experience in training, fine-tuning, and/or experimenting with foundation models beyond black-box use.
- Familiarity with one or more deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.).
- Proficiency in C or C++.
- Experience working and communicating cross-functionally in a team environment.
Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
Tags: AIStats Architecture Computer Science Deep Learning Economics Engineering Generative AI Generative modeling GitHub ICLR ICML Machine Learning Mathematics Model training NeurIPS Open Source PhD Physics Privacy Python PyTorch Recommender systems Research Statistics TensorFlow VR
Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences Equity Flex vacation Health care Salary bonus
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