Postdoctoral Researcher, Central Applied Science, On-Device ML (PhD) Responsibilities:

• Assess potential opportunities and execute world-class research associated with with federated learning and on-device personalization.
• Design and prototype new algorithms, optimization methods, and system architectures.
• Implement new algorithms or mechanisms, deploy them into internal or open-sourced libraries and tooling platforms, and conduct empirical studies on internal datasets to showcase value for real world applications.
• Publish research results in top-tier journals and at leading international conferences.
• Establish collaborations and communications externally with academia and industry.

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, Statistics, Mathematics, or similar quantitative field. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
• Understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinning.
• Experience with Federated Learning and/or On-Device Model Personalization.
• Experience in communicating complex research both for public audiences of peers.
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
• Experience in training, fine-tuning, and/or experimenting with foundation models beyond black-box use.
• Proficiency designing and implementing analytical and/or algorithmic solutions, tailored to particular business needs and tested on large data sets.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Familiarity with one or more deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub).
• Experience working and communicating cross-functionally in a team environment.
• Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, MobiCom, MobiSys, etc.
• Experience working in an industry applied research environment.
• Experience in training, fine-tuning, and/or experimenting with foundation models beyond black-box use.
• Proficiency in C or C .

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