AI Research Scientist, Audio-Visual Understanding, FAIR

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$154K-$217K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

59% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

AI Research Scientist, Audio-Visual Understanding, FAIR Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to join Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), a research organization focused on making significant advances in AI. Our organization is driven by advancing the science of intelligence and developing technology toward achieving superintelligence. We are seeking researchers with experience in computer vision, speech and multimodal learning to join our team and help build the perceptual foundations for real-time embodied conversational agents. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with a highly interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and cross-functional partners, with access to cutting-edge technology, resources, and research facilities. Responsibilities: - Develop joint audio-visual understanding systems that integrate visual and auditory signals for advanced perception - Build and evaluate audiovisual language models for social interactions and understanding, including predicting social intent, semantic function, and reasoning from human-centric inputs - Contribute to benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for visual social understanding and interactions - Train and optimize state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies - Conduct and collaborate on research projects within a globally-based team Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience - A PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields - Experience holding an industry, postdoctoral, faculty, or government researcher position - Research background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational statistics, or applied mathematics, or related areas - Research publications reflecting experience in theoretical or empirical research -

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