UX Research Scientist, Avatars Generative AI Experiences Team

Building a compelling Metaverse experience starts with enabling our billions of users to represent and express themselves the way they want to in the digital world. Avatars are the key to meaningful connections in the Metaverse and our research team is at the forefront of helping understand avatar user needs and building compelling and iconic avatars for the future of digital representation. In addition to avatars, our team also enables AI-driven agents, NPCs and companion characters that enable our users to navigate the virtual worlds of Horizon (Meta’s primary metaverse app) and express their identity and personality to connect meaningfully with others.

The Generative AI Experiences team within the Avatars Pillar is responsible for creating compelling AI-generated characters and character-enabled experiences that facilitate users to represent and express themselves. The goal for our team is to build characters that people love. The person in this role will help us figure out (through research) what will make our users fall in love with our AI-driven characters.UX Research Scientist, Avatars Generative AI Experiences Team Responsibilities

• Conduct mixed-methods research to better understand user needs and support the development of compelling AI characters for the Metaverse
• Lead research for our Generative AI-driven agents, characters and companions, specifically helping understand user needs for these characters, researching technical affordances required for building them and supporting creators build these characters themselves in the Metaverse
• Define the future of digital representation for billions of Meta’s users and the future of virtual characters for the Metaverse, both at Meta and consequently for the world
• Work with the technology of tomorrow, including AI-driven agents, Codec avatars and AR smart glasses
• Work with avatars and characters across a broad spectrum of use cases created by both first-party and third party partners and also across both mobile surfaces (eg. smartphone applications) and immersive devices (eg. Quest VR headsets & AR smart glasses).

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction or a related field
• Mixed methods research experience with both qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Experience with conducting mixed-method experiments with human subjects and triangulating qualitative, quantitative and behavioral data
• Experience conducting research in a product environment in industry

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GenerativeAI products and features, including technical knowledge about how AI-enabled agents and Large Language Models work
• Research and product experience with virtual characters, virtual humans, conversational agents and virtual companions
• Experience working with cross-functional groups and teams
• Demonstrated experience with creating high quality research deliverables

For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. 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.
$103,000/year to $163,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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