AI Research Manager - Meta Superintelligence Labs

About the role

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist Manager to join Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). In this role, you’ll lead the efforts of building and shipping personal superintelligence at the frontier. This is a technical leadership role requiring research expertise, people management skills, and the experience of driving execution on open-ended AI challenges with high reliability.

The evaluations and datasets your team builds will directly impact the research direction and major model lines within MSL, making engineering reliability, rigor, and scalability paramount. You will maintain high velocity across your team while adapting to rapidly shifting priorities as we advance the technical research frontier. You'll need to be flexible and adaptive, guiding your team through a wide variety of problems in the LLM post-training space.

Responsibilities

• Team leadership & management: Build, mentor, and grow a team of research scientists and research engineers
• Technical Strategy & Execution: Oversee work across the full LLM post-training stack. Influence the technical roadmap and research direction. Translate ambiguous user and product needs into tractable research questions, technical plans, and measurable outcomes
• Cross-functional collaboration: Lead complex cross-functional projects end-to-end
• Hands-on technical contributions: Maintain technical credibility through hands-on contributions to critical projects. Review code, provide technical guidance, and unblock complex scaling or modeling challenges. Define and maintain clear research quality standards and engineering best practices for the team

Requirements

• PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field
• 6+ years of industry experience in AI research, machine learning, or a closely related technical field
• 4+ years of experience managing teams of researchers or engineers, including experience managing other technical leaders or managers
• Experience working on frontier-quality/state-of-the-art Large Language Models. Deep, practical experience in LLM post-training
• Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical work with people management and strategic planning
• Experience communicating technical strategy and research direction to cross-functional stakeholders
• Publications at peer-reviewed venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or similar) related to deep learning, language models, or data-centric AI

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing teams that build language model post-training pipelines (SFT/RLHF/RLVR), synthetic data generation, or high-quality evals infrastructure
• Experience in implementing or developing environments for agentive workflows (e.g., tool use, web browsing environments, coding sandboxes)
• Extensive experience working on long horizon agents, agent tool use, personalization, and/or search
• Experience building infrastructure for agentive workflows, tool-use data collection, or reinforcement learning environments
• Experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems and high-throughput data processing pipelines
• Experience managing teams in fast-paced research or startup environments

Pay

$219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.