Codec Avatars Research Engineer
| Company | Meta |
|---|---|
| Location | Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Salary | $85.1 – $251000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Masters or higher degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- Experience with multi-node machine learning training workflows and frameworks
- Experience in developing or applying computer graphics algorithms
- Experience in developing or applying computer vision algorithms
- Adept communication skills, including experience in driving decision-making processes
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including, research, software, legal, privacy, and security
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience in Linux/shell scripting development
Responsibilities
- Develop a large-scale machine learning model to build a universal prior for human motion and behavior
- Define data requirements and collaborate with the Research SuperCluster team to efficiently load data
- Partner with FAIR to explore and implement various state-of-the-art models and methods, including transformers, diffusion models, and LLMs
- Collaborate with the Encoder team to support the real-time animation of the avatars
- Define, design, and implement automatic pipeline to leverage large amounts of 2D video data to enhance 3D motion generation
Preferred Qualifications
- PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience in machine learning and modeling of 3D humans
- Publish papers on CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, T-PAMI, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, etc. as the first author
- Understanding of neural network training, experience with large-scale models, diffusion models, hypernetworks, etc
- Proficiency in C++