Research Scientist, 3D/4D Generative AI for World Generation

Meta Reality Labs brings together an R&D team of researchers, developers, and engineers with the shared goal of developing the next generation of XR experiences across the spectrum. Our World AI Research team explores, develops, publishes, and delivers novel and cutting-edge technologies for creating photorealistic 3D and 4D worlds from large-scale and heterogeneous data sources. Our team is addressing a variety of technical challenges including generative world foundation model development, static and dynamic reconstruction using radiance fields, semantic scene understanding, and related domains.

We're looking for candidates who share a passion for exploring and solving complex, challenging problems at the intersection of generative modeling and photorealistic 3D/4D reconstruction. The aim of this role is to develop, advance, and support the technology maturing process of state of the art research in 3D/4D Generative AI technologies.Research Scientist, 3D/4D Generative AI for World Generation Responsibilities

• Research and develop novel computer vision models in Generative AI, with a focus on photorealistic 3D/4D scene generation.
• Publish research results at top-tier international conferences.
• Collaborate with team members throughout the lifetime of a project, from early research through prototyping
• Develop research that can be applied to Meta’s VR/AR product development

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• PhD in the field of computer vision, machine learning, robotics, or equivalent
• 3+ years of work experience in a faculty, industry, or government research position with primary emphasis on AI research
• Background in generative AI, 3D computer vision, video, and image generation
• Experience designing generative machine learning algorithms, including data curation, large-scale training, and inference of novel ML architectures
• Experience working in cross functional collaborations
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 CVPR, ECCV/ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH
• Experience in AI research and with large-scale, foundation model training efforts
• Evidenced success with software engineering via internships, work experiences, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub.)
• Mathematical background and understanding of numerical optimization, linear algebra, probabilistic estimation, and 3D geometry
• Experience with prototyping algorithms in

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$177,000/year to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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