Artificial intelligence
10 Meta FAIR research engineers
These ten current Meta FAIR research engineers hold research engineering roles in Meta's Fundamental AI Research group. A reader can learn what research engineering work at Meta FAIR involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alexander Miller
LinkedInExperience: Former Research Engineer, FAIR · Meta
Research Engineer, FAIR at Meta (2015–2017); Alexander Miller has held Research Engineering Manager, FAIR roles at Meta since 2017 and has been Senior Research Engineering Manager, FAIR since 2021. A highlight says they supported the teams that developed CICERO and LLama1 in 2022.
Andrea Caciolai
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · Meta
Research Engineer at Meta since 2025, in the Machine Translation team within FAIR according to a highlight. Andrea Caciolai was Research Scientist II (2024–2025) and Research Scientist (2022–2024) at Amazon, and Research Scientist Intern at Amazon in 2022.
Bhavul Gauri
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer at FAIR · Meta
Research Engineer at FAIR at Meta since 2025. Bhavul Gauri was Machine Learning Engineer (TL) at Meta (2021–2025) and Research Scientist (Tech Lead) at Zapr Media Labs (acquired by Samsung) (2020–2021), and Senior Data Science Engineer there (2018–2020).
Can Balioglu
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer, FAIR · Meta
Research Engineer, FAIR at Meta since 2022. Can Balioglu was Software Engineer, PyTorch at Meta (2020–2022), Senior Research Engineer, Alexa at Amazon (2019–2020) and Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS at Amazon (2017–2019), according to their profile.
Gergely Szilvasy
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · Meta
Research Engineer at Meta since 2022, a role a highlight describes as Research Engineer in FAIR (Foundational AI Research). Gergely Szilvasy also held Senior Staff Software Engineer (2021–2022) and Senior Software Engineering Manager (2017–2021) roles at Meta.
Matthew Le
LinkedInExperience: AI Research Engineer · Meta
AI Research Engineer at Meta since 2018; a highlight says they are a research engineer at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) working in the core machine learning group. Matthew Le was Software Engineer at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2016–2018).
Muhammed Shuaibi
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · Meta
Research Engineer at Meta since 2022; a highlight says they work on the FAIR Chemistry team building datasets, frameworks and tools to accelerate materials and molecular discovery. Muhammed Shuaibi was a PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University (2018–2022).
Qingfei You
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer, FAIR · Meta
Research Engineer, FAIR at Meta since 2022, where a highlight says they built a Spark dataset pipeline for large-scale language model continuous pretraining (CodeLLaMa). Qingfei You was Senior Software Engineer at Meta (2020–2022) and Software Engineer at Facebook (2018–2020).
Russell Howes
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer, FAIR · Meta
Research Engineer, FAIR at Meta since 2021, a role the profile places in research. Russell Howes was Machine Learning Engineer at Meta (2019–2021), Software Engineer at Google (2014–2019) and Consultant at Applied Minds (2012–2014), according to their profile.
Vahe Gharakhanyan
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer @ FAIR · Meta
Research Engineer @ FAIR at Meta since 2023, a role a highlight ties to FAIR Chemistry. Vahe Gharakhanyan was a Graduate Research Assistant at Columbia University (2019–2023) and held AI Resident roles at X, The Moonshot Factory in 2021 and 2022–2023.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How is work divided between research engineers and research scientists on a project?
- 02What does it take to turn a research prototype into an open-source release that others can use?
- 03Which engineering skills matter most for someone moving from product engineering into AI research?
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