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AI Research Assistant (PhD)

United Kingdom, London · Job Posted February 16, 2026
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Meta is seeking PhD Students through 4-year fixed term contracts to join our Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) Lab. We are committed to advancing the field of artificial intelligence by making fundamental advances in scientific methods and technologies to help interact with and understand our world. In London, we are specifically working on natural language processing, 3D computer vision and reinforcement learning and are looking for individuals working in these areas. PhD students joining our team are jointly supervised by academics at the partnering academic lab (University of Oxford) and Research Scientists at FAIR. As part of FAIR’s general mission, we expect the work to come out of the PhD, both at Meta and the academic partner, to be open science and open source.

Job Responsibility

  • Perform research to advance the science and technology of intelligent systems
  • Perform research that improves computational understanding and representation of data
  • Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications
  • Collaborate and increase productivity on existing research projects

Requirements

  • Seeking to obtain a PhD degree
  • Knowledge in Machine Learning
  • Knowledge in a programming language
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorisation during employment

Nice to have

  • Masters degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience building systems based on machine learning and/or deep learning methods
  • Research and software engineer experience demonstrated via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or open-source contributions
  • Knowledge in Python, Lua, C++, C, C# and/or Java
  • Publications or experience in fields related to machine learning, AI, computer vision, natural language processing, computational neuroscience, optimisation, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, or data science
  • You will have to be accepted for a DPhil at the University of Oxford
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