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# Research Scientist, Multi-Modal Human Understanding

Pittsburgh, PA +1 more Research & Science 

Listed on Meta Platforms’s official careers site. Listed as of October 18, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
[Apply on Meta Platforms’s careers site →](https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/1704822071642848/)

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## Job description

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to advance multi-modal AI technologies for human understanding and synthesis. In this role, you will develop Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and video foundation models that enable machines to perceive, interpret, and generate rich representations of human behavior, expression, and interaction. Your research will span multi-modal reasoning, video understanding, and generative synthesis, enabling more natural and intuitive human-computer interaction at scale.

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement novel multi-modal architectures that fuse vision, language, and temporal signals for holistic human understanding
- Develop and train Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for tasks including visual question answering, image-text reasoning, and grounded human-centric understanding
- Build video foundation models capable of temporal reasoning, action synthesis and long-form video synthesis with applications to human behavior synthesis
- Research generative synthesis techniques for human-centric content including video generation, motion synthesis, and multi-modal content creation
- Conduct rigorous experiments to evaluate model performance across diverse benchmarks, analyze failure modes, and iterate on architectures to improve accuracy and generalization
- Contribute to the full research lifecycle from problem formulation and dataset curation through model development and evaluation

## 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
- 2+ years of experience in multi-modal AI research, including hands-on work with Vision-Language
- Models, video understanding, or human-centric AI systems
- 2+ years of experience implementing and training large-scale neural networks using frameworks such as PyTorch, with experience on transformer-based architectures Experience designing and executing experiments to evaluate multi-modal model performance, including quantitative analysis across vision, language, and video benchmarks Experience writing production-quality or research-quality code in Python for multi-modal AI applications Experience developing or fine-tuning Vision-Language
- Models for human understanding tasks Experience with video foundation models, temporal transformers, or large-scale video pretraining
- Track record of contributing to published multi-modal AI research at venues such as CVPR, ICCV, or NeurIPS Experience with generative models for human synthesis including diffusion models, GANs, or autoregressive models for video or motion generation

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Not stated
- First seen by OpenNash: Oct 11, 2026
- Last checked: Oct 18, 2026
- Listed for: 7 days
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA +1 more[Apply on Meta Platforms’s careers site →](https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/1704822071642848/)

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