This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ruiyu Li, a 26-year-old AI researcher at Meta, based in Menlo Park. Her identity, employment, and salary (which includes base, bonus, and equity) have been confirmed by Business Insider. This story has been edited for length and clarity.

I’m a research scientist at Meta specializing in AI and machine learning.

I work on training AI models to advance large-scale recommendation systems, building AI-native agents to improve efficiency, and optimizing LLM post-training and inference.

I graduated from college in 2022 and finished my Master’s in machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University in…

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