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AI Research Scientist, Vision Language Models

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Switzerland , Zurich

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Job Description:

Lead, collaborate, and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in multimodal reasoning and generation research. Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, while identifying intermediate milestones. Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results. Work with a large team. Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts. Mentor other team members. Play a significant role in healthy cross-functional collaboration. Prioritize research that can be applied to Meta's product development.

Job Responsibility:

  • Push state of the art in multimodal generative AI
  • Explore new techniques for advanced reasoning and multimodal understanding for AI Assistants
  • Mentor and work with AI/ML engineers to find a path from research to production

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • A PhD in AI, computer science, or related technical fields
  • Publications in machine learning, computer vision, NLP, speech
  • Experience writing software and executing complex experiments involving large AI models and datasets
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Nice to have:

  • First (joint) author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL)
  • Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research
  • Fluent in Python and PyTorch (or equivalent)

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Job Posted:
April 12, 2026

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