Postdoctoral Researcher, Central Applied Science, On-Device ML (PhD)

Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Job Description

Central Applied Science establishes state-of-the-art scientific advancements for Meta's products and systems. The team's expertise spans many domains including AI/ML, statistics, economics, network science and mathematical optimization. We own tooling and libraries, develop methodologies, design and prototype solutions, and partner across Meta to launch these solutions such that 3 billion people and 10 million advertisers can benefit. We seek Postdoctoral Researchers to focus on federated learning and on-device personalization to enable new capabilities and performance for Meta's products across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Reality Labs. Advancements in FL & ODP will also enable greater energy and infrastructure efficiency. Client-side applications include recommender systems for advertising and organic content, generative AI experiences, models, text prediction, and scene understanding.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Central Applied Science, On-Device ML (PhD) Responsibilities

  • Assess potential opportunities and execute world-class research associated with with federated learning and on-device personalization.
  • Design and prototype new algorithms, optimization methods, and system architectures.
  • 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.
  • Publish research results in top-tier journals and at leading international conferences.
  • Establish collaborations and communications externally with academia and industry.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 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, or similar quantitative field. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
  • Understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinning.
  • Experience with Federated Learning and/or On-Device Model Personalization.
  • Experience in communicating complex research both for public audiences of peers.
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
  • Experience in training, fine-tuning, and/or experimenting with foundation models beyond black-box use.
  • Proficiency designing and implementing analytical and/or algorithmic solutions, tailored to particular business needs and tested on large data sets.
  • Proficiency in Python.
  • Familiarity with one or more deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub).
  • Experience working and communicating cross-functionally in a team environment.
  • 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, ICLR, AISTATS, MobiCom, MobiSys, etc.
  • Experience working in an industry applied research environment.
  • Experience in training, fine-tuning, and/or experimenting with foundation models beyond black-box use.
  • Proficiency in C or C++.

Company Info.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook Inc.) is a large technology company that was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and several of his college roommates. The company is based in Menlo Park, California, and is primarily known for its flagship social media platform, Facebook. In addition to its consumer-facing products, Meta Platforms also offers a range of advertising and marketing services to businesses and organizations.

  • Industry
    Advertising,Consumer electronics,Social media Company,Artificial intelligence
  • No. of Employees
    76,000
  • Location
    1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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