Job Description

At Facebook Reality Labs, were developing the input technologies that will define the future of the virtual and augmented reality computing platforms. We are looking for a creative, skilled and motivated Research Engineer to join our machine perception team in advancing the state-of-the-art of human understanding, action recognition and statistical text decoding. You will work with research scientists, software engineers and hardware engineers to design technical solutions in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment.

Research Engineer, Input and Action Recognition (PhD) Responsibilities

* Work with researchers to develop input architectures that combine vision and language.

* Design and prototype interactive experiences and evaluate them through user research.

* Design and prototype data collection systems to accelerate machine learning.

* Collaborate and work across teams to develop concepts that advance the entire product pipeline (hardware, software, data collection, machine learning, etc.).

Minimum Qualifications

* Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Computer Science or a related field.

* Experience in developing interactive solutions for computer vision, natural language processing, or computer graphics.

* Experience working with PyTorch or TensorFlow.

* Experience with sequence modeling, domain adaptation or representation disentanglement.

* Experience designing data collection protocols and quality control.

* Technical knowledge across topics including machine learning, optimization, Bayesian statistics and state estimation.

* Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

* Interpersonal experience: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

* Research experience in end-to-end speech recognition or real-time statistical text decoding.

* Experience transferring technology from research in computer vision, machine perception or machine learning into a shipping product.

* Experience with joint hardware-software development and associated rapid prototyping.

* Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub).

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