Meta
University Grad - PhD & Postdoc
AI Infrastructure
Artificial Intelligence
Infrastructure
Research
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Research
Research Scientist, AI & Systems Co-design (PhD) Responsibilities
- Explore, co-design and optimize parallelisms, compute efficiency, distributed training/inference paradigms and algorithms to improve the scalability, efficiency and reliability of inference and large-scale training systems.
- Innovate and co-design novel model architectures for sustained scaling and hardware efficiency during training and inference.
- Benchmark, analyze, model and project the performance of AI workloads against a wide range of what-if scenarios and provide early input to the design of future hardware, models and runtime, giving crucial feedback to the architecture, compiler, kernel, modeling and runtime teams.
- Explore, co-design and productionize model compression techniques such as Quantization, Pruning, Distillation and Sparsity to improve training and inference efficiency.
- Explore, prototype and productionize highly optimized ML kernels to unlock full potential of current and future accelerators for Meta’s AI workloads. Open source SOTA implementations as applicable.
- Optimize inference and training communications performance at scale and investigate improvements to algorithms, tooling, and interfaces, working across multiple accelerator types and HPC collective communication libraries such as NCCL, RCCL, UCC and MPI.
- Guide Meta’s AI HW requirements and design focusing on performance at System and Silicon levels. Co-design and optimize our AI HW and related software stack for Meta’s future workloads, with technology pathfinding and evaluation of cutting-edge, including off-market hardware systems, spanning multi-vendor/generation GPUs and ASICs, including Meta’s in-house MTIA.
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Generative AI, NLP, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
- Specialized experience in one or more of the following areas: Accelerators/GPU architectures, High Performance Computing (HPC), Machine Learning Compilers, Training/Inference ML Systems, Model Compression, Communication Collectives, ML Kernels/Operator optimizations, Machine learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch) and SW/HW co-design.
- Experience developing AI-System infrastructure or AI algorithms in C/C++ or Python.
- Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience or knowledge of training/inference of large scale deep learning models.
- Experience or knowledge of either Generative AI models such as LLMs/LDMs or Ranking & Recommendation models such as DLRM or equivalent.
- Experience or knowledge of distributed ML systems and algorithm development.
- Experience or knowledge of at least one of the responsibilities listed in this job posting.
For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position.
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.
$117,000/year to $173,000/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.
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