Facebook Hiring for Visiting Researcher, Adaptive Experimentation (PhD – Core Data Science) at Providence, Rhode Island Full Time

Intro:

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Summary:

Meta is seeking a Visiting Researcher, to join the Adaptive Experimentation team. The mission of the team is to do cutting-edge research and build new tools for reinforcement learning and black-box optimization that democratize new and emerging uses of AI technologies across Facebook, Instagram, and AR/VR. Applications range from AutoML, to automating A/B tests, to contextual decision-making to black-box optimization for hardware design.Visiting Researchers will be expected to conduct cutting-edge applied research in the area of black-box optimization while working collaboratively with teams across the company to solve important problems.

Required Skills:

1. Develop and apply new adaptive experimentation methods, such as bayesian optimization and multi-armed bandit optimization to new and emerging applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in computer science, operations research, statistics, or related field with 2+ years of research experience with reinforcement learning or neural networks

2. Experience with developing and debugging in with Python with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Caffe, or related frameworks

3. 2+ years of research experience and a publication track record in at least one of the following: Bayesian optimization, Deep reinforcement learning, or Contextual bandits

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

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience with causal inference, applied statistics.

2. Knowledge for disseminating new methods through open-source projects and/or academic publications.

Industry: Internet

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