Facebook Research Scientist Speech & Audio - FAIR PhD 

United States, California 

432930137

Develop algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies.

Work with and create large datasets.

Conduct research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines.

Conduct research towards long-term ambitious research goals while identifying intermediate milestones.

Conduct research that enables learning the semantics of data across multiple modalities (speech, audio, images, video, text, and other modalities).

Open source high quality code and reproducible results for the community.

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 in the field of Speech, Audio, Language, Machine Learning, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.

Research and/or hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: audio (speech, sound, or music) generation, text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, text-to-music generation, text-to-sound generation, speech recognition, speech / audio representation learning, vision perception, image / video generation, video-to-audio generation, audio-visual learning, audio language models, lip sync, lip movement generation / correction, lip reading, etc.

Experience with Python and PyTorch.

Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops, journals or conferences such as ICML, NeuRIPS, ICLR, ICASSP, Interspeech, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, and other similar venues.

Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)

Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and different perspectives to determine a path forward

Experienced in large-scale data processing

Experience communicating research findings to public audiences of peers.