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Research Engineer, Speech Generation - FAIR

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Research Engineer, Speech Generation - FAIR

San Francisco, CA

Our team has released the Seamless Communication models at the end of 2023, the very first massively multilingual, streaming and expressive multimodal translation systems. We are looking for a Research Engineer, expert in speech generation to take these models to the next level by making them production ready.Overtime, this project will be transitioned fully to an infrastructure team, and the role will support our next research vision to build a personalizable, controllable foundation model for synchronous, multimodal and expressive behavior generation.Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) is a research organization committed to advancing open AI research, and we will push the boundaries of human-centric understanding and generation. Our team's technology will enable next-generation human-to-human and human-to-machine communication.

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Research Engineer, Speech Generation - FAIR Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate, and execute on research that pushes forward the state of the art in human-centric understanding and generation.
  • Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results.
  • Develop methodology and benchmarks to evaluate different approaches.
  • Work with a large and globally distributed team.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Masters Degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field
  • 3+ years of industry, academic or government laboratory experience
  • Experience holding an industry, faculty, or government researcher position
  • Experience developing machine learning algorithms or machine learning infrastructure in Python
  • Experience writing software and executing complex experiments involving large AI models and datasets
  • Experience in speech generation and text-to-speech
Preferred Qualifications:
  • A PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields.
  • Direct experience in generative AI, and LLM research.
  • First author publications experience at peer-reviewed AI conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, Interspeech, etc.))
  • Experience in multimodal generation modeling, in particular human motion generation modeling.
About Meta:

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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$70.67/hour to $208,000/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.

Client-provided location(s): San Francisco, CA, USA
Job ID: a1KDp00000E1pQFMAZ_1004
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Sabbatical
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Pension
    • Company Equity
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Founder led

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