Company: META PLATFORMS, INC. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)Job Title: Research ScientistJob Code: REQ-2403-135161Job Location: New York, New YorkJob Type: Full-time, 9am - 6pm, 40 hours a week, Monday - FridaySalary: $240,240/year to $240,240/year + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus or equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta at this link: https://www.metacareers.com/facebook-life/benefits.Duties:Research, design, and develop new optimization algorithms and techniques to improve the efficiency and performance of Meta’s platforms. Design and implement large-scale distributed software systems to serve large numbers of complex requests simultaneously and without failure. Utilize technical research background, train new ranking models, and run experiments. Create tools for migrating large bodies of user data across systems for new products, scalability efforts, and development of new core infrastructure. Use machine learning, statistics, or other data techniques to build algorithms. Suggest, collect, and synthesize system requirements from stakeholders and create effective feature roadmaps. Analyze and resolve computer challenges from a system engineering standpoint.Requirements:Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field. Position also requires completion of a university-level course/research project/internship or thesis, in the following: 1. Algorithms, data structures, or systems software; 2. Solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches; 3. Gathering, manipulating, or analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources; 4. Communicating complex research in a clear, precise, and actionable manner; 5. Research in topics closely related to machine learning, NLP, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, signal processing, data mining, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, or computer vision; 6. Performing research that enables learning the semantics of data (images, video, text, audio, or other modalities) and advances the technology of intelligent machines; 7. Developing highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, statistics, regression, rules-based models, or mathematical models; 8. Java, C++, Perl, PHP, or Python.

Minimum Salary: 240,240 Maximum Salary: 240,240 Salary Unit: Yearly