Job Opportunity in Canada: Research Assistant in Artificial Intelligence at Facebook 2021

Facebook is offering an exceptional job opportunity as a Research Assistant in Artificial Intelligence to join the team in Montreal, Canada for 2021. Individuals in this role are expected to be recognized experts in identified research areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational statistics, and applied mathematics, particularly including areas such as deep learning, graphical models, reinforcement learning, computer perception, natural language processing and data representation. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in producing new science to understand intelligence and technology to make computers more intelligent.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines.
2. Lead research that enables learning the semantics of data (images, video, text, audio, speech and other modalities).
3. Devise better data-driven models of human behavior.
4. Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, while identifying intermediate milestones.
5. Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications.
6. Contribute research that can be applied to Facebook product development.
7. Lead and collaborate on research projects within a globally based team.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Currently holding a faculty, industry, or government researcher position.
2. Ph.D. and publications in machine learning, AI, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, data science, or related technical fields.
3. Experience leading a team in solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches.
4. Experience manipulating and analyzing data from different sources.
5. Experience in theoretical and empirical research and for answering questions with research.
6. Ability to communicate research for public audiences of peers.
7. Knowledge in a programming language.
8. Ability to obtain and maintain work authorization in the country of employment in 2018.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. 1+ year(s) of work experience in a university, industry, or government lab(s), in a role with primary emphasis on AI research.
2. Experience driving original scholarship in collaboration with a team.
3. First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. NIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL).
4. Experience in developing and debugging in C/C++, Python, C# and/or Java.

About Facebook:

Facebook is a for-profit corporation and online social media and social networking service based in California, United States. Its mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through its family of apps and services, it is building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether the team is creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. The company's global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways.

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