Research Engineer, Preparedness - Meta Superintelligence Labs

**Summary:**

Meta is seeking Research Engineers to join the Preparedness team within Meta Superintelligence Labs. The Preparedness team evaluates the increasing capabilities of our AI systems, with a focus on frontier AI capabilities and risks. We ensure that evaluations are in place to mitigate these risks and responsibly handle the development of frontier AI.As a Research Engineer on Preparedness, you will work alongside world-class AI researchers to develop new evaluations grounded in real world threat models, maintain existing evaluations so they remain current and reliable, and produce written artifacts that Meta can trust during high-stakes launches. This is a highly technical role requiring the ability to solve machine learning and engineering with high reliability. The evaluations you build will directly inform risk assessments and launch decisions within MSL, making engineering reliability, rigor, and scalability paramount. You will excel by maintaining high velocity while adapting to rapidly shifting priorities as we advance the technical research frontier. Preparedness is a highly interdisciplinary team, tightly connecting evaluations, internal red teaming, and mitigations for our frontier models. The evaluations you produce will be read and acted upon by Meta leadership during model launches and policy reviews.

**Required Skills:**

Research Engineer, Preparedness - Meta Superintelligence Labs Responsibilities:

1. Build and continuously refine evaluations for multimodal and agentic frontier AI models, including in cybersecurity, chemical security, and biosecurity

2. Build robust, reusable evaluation pipelines that scale across multiple model lines and product areas

3. Produce auditable technical artifacts, including evaluation reports and model cards, at high reliability and speed

4. Scope and deliver end-to-end evaluations under ambiguous and rapidly shifting requirements, re-prioritizing as the threat landscape and Meta’s frontier models evolve

5. Work across research, engineering, policy, and legal teams to align evaluation priorities with launch timelines

**Minimum Qualifications:**

Minimum Qualifications:

6. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

7. 3+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, machine learning research, or a related technical role

8. Proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks

9. Experience identifying, designing and completing medium to large technical features independently, without guidance

10. Proven experience in software engineering practices including version control, testing, and code review practices

**Preferred Qualifications:**

Preferred Qualifications:

11. Experience implementing or developing benchmarks for agentic large language models and multimodal models (e.g., vision-language, audio, video, browser agents)

12. Publications at peer-reviewed venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or similar) related to language model evaluation, AI safety, or deep learning

13. Experience working with large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines

14. Experience in red-teaming AI systems, adversarial machine learning, or abuse prevention systems

15. Background in biology or chemistry, particularly chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) risk domains and experience designing evaluations or threat assessments related to dual-use scientific knowledge

16. Background in cybersecurity, penetration testing, or security research, particularly as it relates to assessing AI-enabled cyber capabilities or designing mitigations for AI-assisted exploitation

17. Track record of open-source contributions to ML evaluation tools or benchmarks

**Public Compensation:**

$154,003/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.

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