Research Engineer - MSL FAIR Foundations

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Salary

$184K-$257K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

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

89% 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

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

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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Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Research Engineer - MSL FAIR Foundations Menlo Park, CA; Burlingame, CA Meta is seeking Research Engineers to join the Evaluations team within Meta Superintelligence Labs. Evaluations are the core of AI progress at MSL, determining what capabilities get built, which features get prioritized, and how fast our models improve. As a Research Engineer on this team, you will curate and build the benchmarks for our most advanced AI models, across text, vision, audio, and beyond. You'll work alongside world-class researchers and engineers to collect, develop, and deploy novel benchmarks and reinforcement learning environments. This is a highly technical role requiring practical research engineering skills and the ability to work independently on a variety of open-ended machine learning challenges with high reliability. The evaluations you build will directly impact the research direction and major model lines within MSL, making engineering reliability, rigor, and scalability paramount. You will excel by maintaining high velocity while adapting to rapidly shifting priorities as we advance the technical research frontier. You'll need to be flexible and adaptive, tackling a wide variety of problems in the evaluations space, from implementing existing benchmarks to developing novel benchmarks and environments to implementing evaluation tooling at scale. If you are passionate about defining the capabilities that drive AI progress and thrive in fast-paced, high-impact research environments, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity at the core of MSL. Responsibilities: - Curate and integrate publicly available and internal benchmarks to direct the capabilities of frontier model development - Develop

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