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10 Meta Superintelligence Labs research engineers
These ten current and former Meta Superintelligence Labs research engineers hold or held research engineer roles tied to the lab, its TBD Lab or Llama work. A reader can learn what research engineering work at Meta Superintelligence Labs involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Chen Bao
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · Meta
Research Engineer at Meta since 2026; their summary says they are a research engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs working on frontier robotics models. Chen Bao was Founding Research Engineer at Assured Robot Intelligence (2025–2026) and Member of Technical Staff at Skild AI (2025).
Deren Lei
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · Meta
Research Engineer at Meta since 2025, a role a highlight ties to GenAI MetaAI and Llama core modeling. Deren Lei was Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft (2023–2025) and Applied Scientist at Microsoft (2021–2023), according to their profile, and is based in Bellevue.
Dorian Desblancs
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Engineer · Meta
Senior Research Engineer at Meta since 2024, with a highlight on speech dubbing work; their summary says they work in the RealTime AI org at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Dorian Desblancs was Research Engineer at Deezer (2021–2024), according to their profile.
Kavya Kopparapu
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Lab · Meta
Research Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Lab at Meta since 2025, according to their profile. Kavya Kopparapu was Research Engineer at Google DeepMind (2022–2025) and held a Research Engineer Intern role on the DeepMind Multi-agent Team in 2021, and is based in New York.
Ksheeraj Sai Vepuri
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Engineer · Meta
Senior Research Engineer at Meta since 2024; their summary says that at Meta SuperIntelligence Labs they work on AI media safety and alignment for multimodal image and video models, including automated red-teaming. Ksheeraj Sai Vepuri was Machine Learning Scientist II at Expedia Group (2021–2024).
Miles Turpin
LinkedInExperience: AI Safety Research Engineer · Meta
AI Safety Research Engineer at Meta since 2025; their summary says they work on safety and alignment evaluations for the frontier model effort at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Miles Turpin was Research Scientist at Scale AI (2024–2025) and Research Scientist at New York University (2022–2024).
Nathaniel Li
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta
Senior Research Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta since 2025; a highlight says they led the evaluation reports for Muse Spark 1.1 and Muse Spark Contemplating. Nathaniel Li was ML Research Engineer at Scale AI (2024–2025), according to their profile.
Rahul Mitra
LinkedInExperience: Senior Staff Research Engineer & Manager @ Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) · Meta
Senior Staff Research Engineer & Manager at Meta Superintelligence Labs (2020–2026); a highlight says they led a team of AI research scientists post-training Llama foundation models for Meta AI. Rahul Mitra has been Research Engineer at Google DeepMind since 2026, according to their profile.
Xia (Stanley) Chen
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer, TBD Lab · Meta
Research Engineer, TBD Lab at Meta since 2024, a role a highlight ties to coding, agents and RLHF. Xia (Stanley) Chen was Senior Software Engineer, Perception at Waymo (2020–2024), according to their profile, and is based in Mountain View, California.
Xuewei W.
LinkedInExperience: Research Engineer · Meta
Research Engineer at Meta since 2021; a highlight says they work on Llama post-training focused on reasoning, with past work on Instagram Ads ranking models. Xuewei W. held research intern roles at Microsoft and at an Alibaba-Zhejiang University joint institute, according to their profile.
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Match the person's area to your question, since post-training, safety evaluations, robotics models and speech work are different kinds of research engineering. Check whether they are current or former and which years they spent at Meta, and match that era to your decision.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How is research engineering on a frontier model split between building infrastructure and running experiments?
- 02What makes an evaluation or post-training result trustworthy enough to ship into a model release?
- 03How do research engineers and research scientists divide the work on a large model team?
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