Meta is seeking Research Scientist Managers to join Reality Labs, where you will play a key role in driving significant advances in AI solutions for realistic avatars and natural input/interactions on our XR products. Our current focus includes pose estimation (hand tracking, body tracking), motion synthesis and their downstream tasks for user action understanding and avatar teleportation. As a Research Scientist Manager, you will lead our research and incubation efforts, fostering cutting-edge research and driving execution to deliver groundbreaking models that can be integrated into our products.
Research Scientist Manager - Reality Labs Responsibilities:
- Support and grow a team of domain experts within pose estimation, motion synthesis, and input/interaction modeling
- Drive execution of developing models and systems that are crucial to the end-user experience
- Communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with clients and peer teams to facilitate cross-functional projects
- Remain up-to-date on ongoing algorithm development activities in the team, help work through technical challenges, and be involved in design decisions
- Be hands-on supporting and leading teams of software engineers and research scientists
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- PhD in deep learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and/or related technical field
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in research in pose estimation, motion synthesis, deep learning and related fields
- 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting and leading teams of researchers and engineers
- Experience and track of record in delivering large research initiatives, starting from research to productization in a time-senstive environment
- Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management
- 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 with model optimization, efficient training and inference
- Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub.)
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.
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$177,000/year to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.