AI Research Scientist, Multi-Agent Memory - FAIR, MSL
Menlo Park, CAJob$154–217K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Meta’s Fundamental AI Research organization seeks a Research Engineer for work on multi-agent systems and memory. The role spans research, engineering, and deployment, aiming to advance agents’ ability to reason, learn from experience, and collaborate on complex tasks. The team works on product and frontier-model efforts, with research activities ranging from experiments and evaluation to publication and production deployment.
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Summary:
Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) organization is seeking a Research Engineer to join the team working on multi-agent systems and memory. The role involves driving fundamental breakthroughs to enable agents to reason, learn from experience, and collaborate on complex tasks, contributing across the full spectrum of research, engineering, and deployment for both product and frontier model efforts.
Required Skills:
AI Research Scientist, Multi-Agent Memory - FAIR, MSL Responsibilities:
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Design and execute large-scale research experiments to push the state-of-the-art in machine intelligence, language models, multi-agent communication, test-time scaling, and recursive self-improvement
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Steer projects from early exploration through evaluation on benchmark datasets such as SWE-bench, RSI-Exam, and PaperBench
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Directly contribute to experimental design, harness engineering, maintaining large codebases, running evaluations, and tracking end-to-end performance
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Publish novel algorithmic techniques at top-tier venues, foster open joint experimentation, and mentor team members
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Lead cross-functional research initiatives and establish solution recipes that bridge research clusters to production serving environments
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
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A PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a similar discipline
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Proven track record of publications at top-tier AI and NLP conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP)
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Demonstrated experience with training, fine-tuning, and experimentation on language models and Transformers beyond black-box usage
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Must be able to obtain work authorization in the country of employment
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience working with deep learning frameworks, building research prototypes, and communicating cross-functionally in a team environment
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Research experience in long-term memory, multi-agent systems, agent orchestration, self-improvement, or automated scientific research
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Experience with large language model pre-training, fine-tuning, long-context modeling, context compression, or evaluation pipelines at scale
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Experience building, evaluating, and designing controlled experiments for language-model agents, including tool use, memory mechanisms, or collaborative workflows
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Proven track record of achieving significant research results, as demonstrated by publications at leading AI and NLP conferences
Public Compensation:
$154,000/year to $217,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Industry: Internet
Equal Opportunity:
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 2,206 open Research Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$154–217K/yr
- California median$174–265K/yr475 salary ranges
- US median$137–217K/yr1,509 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $186K, is 16% below the California median midpoint ($220K) — in the middle half of Research Scientist salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 663 open Research Scientist jobs in California and 2,206 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Research Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (1,192 postings).
- Education
- 1,090 of the 2,206 open Research Scientist jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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