Meta AI jobs on Meta’s own board on 24 October 2026: 1,280 postings in all, 98 under its Artificial Intelligence team filter and 38 titled for Meta Superintelligence Labs or FAIR. That is a year after about 600 AI roles were cut and five months after about 8,000 jobs went. A separate contractor portal lists remote labeling work.
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On this page: Meta’s AI postings counted on metacareers.com on 24 October 2026 four different ways, set on a timeline beside the October 2025 and May 2026 cuts, pay only as printed on the posting, the contractor portal the news never mentions, and what about 180 forum comments report about the Meta data labeling contract.
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1. How many postings sat under Meta’s own Artificial Intelligence team filter on 24 October 2026?
98 of the 1,280 postings on the Meta Careers board carried the Artificial Intelligence team tag. 725 is the looser keyword search for AI. Read the section
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2. Which Meta AI group was left out of the October 2025 cut of about 600 roles?
The Associated Press report carried by ABC7 says the cuts hit FAIR, product AI and AI infrastructure, while TBD Lab was not affected and kept hiring. Read the section
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3. Roughly how many open roles did Meta close alongside the May 2026 cut of about 8,000 jobs?
The ABC7 (AP) report gives about 8,000 jobs, roughly 10% of staff, and about 6,000 open roles closed, effective 20 May 2026. Read the section
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4. What hourly range did the remote Data Labeling Analyst II contract list on 24 October 2026?
The posting on Meta’s contingent workforce portal lists $19.54 to $24.42 an hour, paid by Tundra Technical Solutions. Listed rates change and nothing is guaranteed. Read the section
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5. Who is the employer on the Data Labeling Analyst II contract read on 24 October 2026?
The posting states the assignment is with Tundra Technical Solutions providing services to Meta. Read the section
How many Meta AI jobs are on Meta’s own board right now?
The news pages that rank for this search are all about cuts, and none of them carries a single listing. So this page starts at the source. On 24 October 2026 the Meta Careers job search showed 1,280 postings with no filter applied. Meta’s own Artificial Intelligence team filter narrowed that to 98, which is 7.7% of the board.
Which number you get depends on how you ask. A keyword search for AI returns 725 postings, because the word now sits somewhere in the text of most of them, including security, privacy and sales roles. The team filter is tighter but odd in its own way: its first page mixed research interns with a business development manager for AI partnerships. Neither number is wrong. They answer different questions, and a headline that says Meta has 725 AI jobs open is reading the loose one.
| Way of counting, metacareers.com, 24 October 2026 | Postings | What it catches |
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| No filter | 1,280 | Every posting on the board |
| Keyword search: AI | 725 | Any posting with AI in its text, many outside AI teams |
| Team filter: Artificial Intelligence | 98 | Meta’s own AI team tag, interns included |
| Titles naming Meta Superintelligence Labs, MSL or FAIR | 38 | Counted by hand from the Superintelligence and FAIR searches |
| Titles naming TBD Lab | 0 | A TBD Lab search returned 3 postings, none with it in the title |
Which Meta teams are hiring for AI, and which were cut?
Meta’s AI work now sits under Meta Superintelligence Labs, usually shortened to MSL, with the older Fundamental AI Research group, FAIR, inside it. Every page of the Superintelligence search (39 results) and the FAIR search (34 results) was read for this page. 24 titles name MSL, 18 name FAIR, and 4 name both, such as AI Research Scientist, Pre-training Data, MSL FAIR. That gives 38 postings where the team is in the job title itself.
The MSL titles are not all researchers. They include a finance manager, two product designers, two data engineers, a content engineer and two safety data scientists beside the robotics research scientists. The FAIR titles lean the other way: research scientists, research engineers, PhD interns and two postdoctoral researcher postings for Core Learning. The TBD Lab, the small group building Meta’s newest large models, has no posting with its name in the title at all.
That matters because of who was cut. When Meta removed about 600 AI roles on 22 October 2025, ABC7, carrying the Associated Press report, said the cuts hit FAIR, product AI and AI infrastructure, while TBD Lab was left out and kept hiring. A year later FAIR is still advertising, mostly for research and internships. If you are deciding which lab boards are worth your evening, the Google DeepMind job count and the research listings across four labs on this site were read the same way. Amazon shows the same split at a larger size: its AI openings counted beside about 30,000 announced corporate cuts are mostly scientist and engineer roles.
How do Meta’s AI cuts and AI hiring fit together?
They are one plan, not a contradiction, if you read the dates in order. The table below puts the three reported workforce events beside the count read on 24 October 2026.
| Date | What happened | Source |
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| 22 October 2025 | About 600 AI roles cut in FAIR, product AI and AI infrastructure; TBD Lab not affected | ABC7 (AP) |
| 18 May 2026 | About 7,000 staff moved into four new AI organisations, per a memo from chief people officer Janelle Gale | SiliconANGLE, citing Bloomberg |
| 20 May 2026 | About 8,000 jobs cut, roughly 10% of staff, and about 6,000 open roles closed | ABC7 (AP), NPR |
| 24 October 2026 | 1,280 postings on metacareers.com, 98 under the Artificial Intelligence team filter | Meta Careers |
The pattern is that Meta moved its own people into AI work first and hired from outside second. SiliconANGLE’s account of the memo names three of the four new groups, Applied AI Engineering, Agent Transformation Accelerator and Central Analytics and Enterprise Solutions. Closing about 6,000 open roles in the same week also explains why a board of 1,280 feels small for a company of Meta’s size. Fewer doors, and more of them already taken by people who were inside.
If that leaves you unsure which kind of AI work actually fits your background, the two minute match quiz sorts the free board’s screened listings by what you already have, which is a better starting point than a headline.
What do Meta AI jobs pay, as listed?
Pay here is quoted only as printed on the posting on 24 October 2026. Listed bands change, offers can differ from them, and nothing on this page is a promise. Meta prints a base salary range on its US listings and adds bonus, equity and benefits after it.
| Listing, read 24 October 2026 | Employer of record | Pay as listed | Minimum ask |
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| AI Research Scientist, Robotics, MSL (Menlo Park) | Meta | $154,000 to $217,000 a year, plus bonus, equity and benefits | PhD in AI or a related field, or equivalent practical experience |
| Data Scientist, MSL (Safety) | Meta | $177,000 to $247,000 a year, plus bonus, equity and benefits | 6 years in analytics, or 4 with a PhD |
| Staff Research Scientist, FAIR (RL / LLM’s) | Meta | Band not captured in this reading | A completed PhD and research publications |
| Data Labeling Analyst II (remote, contract) | Tundra Technical Solutions | $19.54 to $24.42 an hour | A STEM bachelor’s degree and an English annotation test |
| getAIwork board, AI Data Work listings, stats 23 October 2026 | Various | Pay as each listing states it | 591 listings; 551 of 1,712 live listings are remote |
Two things stand out. The MSL robotics band tops out below the lowest floor printed on the OpenAI and Anthropic research listings in this site’s lab count of 23 October, $250,000 and $300,000. And the gap between a Meta employee and a Meta contractor is the gap between a yearly salary with equity and an hourly rate paid by a staffing firm. Rates change and nothing here is guaranteed.
Can you work on Meta AI without being hired by Meta?
Yes, and this is the part no news page mentions. The footer of every metacareers.com page carries a link that says Looking for contractor roles?, and it goes to the Meta Contingent Workforce Experience, a separate portal for contract positions at Meta. On 24 October 2026 its newest listing was a Data Labeling Analyst II contract, remote, four months and 16 days long, published six hours earlier.
The posting says the work is labeling and auditing a set amount of data each day, reviewing labeled datasets, doing quality checks in Meta’s in house tooling, and switching between project guidelines week to week. It asks for a STEM bachelor’s degree and a pass on an English annotation test, with a foreign language preferred. It states plainly that the assignment is with Tundra Technical Solutions providing services to Meta, so Tundra, not Meta, is the employer. That is the same arrangement the Outlier review and the data annotation platform comparison describe elsewhere: the model maker sets the work, a vendor holds the contract.
What do people who took the Meta data labeling contract report?
Three r/remotework threads carry the accounts, about 180 comments read in all, dated July 2025 to October 2026. In the longest thread, started in July 2025, the opening poster was approached on LinkedIn and told the first interview would test spelling and grammar. A commenter in August 2025 describes two interviews that both assessed text, the second checking whether a summary was truthful, then a HireRight background check. Another, in September 2025, says Tundra was poor at communicating and the laptop arrived late, but the job itself was eight hours a day in any US or Canadian time zone.
Candidates for the coding track describe something harder. One, in January 2026, reports a medium level coding problem and a debugging test; another, hired on 4 March 2026, describes reviewing code in several languages and a palindrome question, calls Tundra incredibly disorganized, and adds in September 2026 that the contract was extended to 31 March 2027. Several others report silence after a second interview, one in the DLA III thread as late as May 2026. A November 2025 thread notes that onboarding forbids working from another country on the Meta laptop.
Not everyone believed it. An early commenter warned the role sounded like a fake cheque scam, and another later called a $30 an hour labeling offer a common scam bait. Both are fair instincts, and the accounts above say this particular contract was real. Set against the posting, the accounts agree on the text tests and the full time hours; where they differ from it is the communication, which the posting cannot promise and the forum says Tundra often misses. This is what people report, not a measurement.
How do you tell a real Meta AI job from a fake one?
Start from Meta’s own pages, never from a message. A real employee role sits on metacareers.com under a job details address. A real contract role is reachable from the footer link to the contingent workforce portal, names the staffing firm in the posting, and prints an hourly range. A Telegram recruiter hiring for Meta, a rate nobody else lists, or any request for a fee or a cheque deposit is none of those things, whatever logo it uses.
The free public board at getAIwork screens listings for exactly those signs before they go up. If you are new to this kind of work, the match quiz for data and training work takes two minutes and points you at listings that fit. Meta’s board moves weekly, so treat 1,280 and 98 as a reading taken on 24 October 2026, in the same spirit as the dated counts of OpenAI roles and Anthropic postings on this site.
Frequently asked questions
Is Meta still hiring for AI after the layoffs?
Yes. On 24 October 2026 Meta’s own board carried 1,280 postings, 98 of them under its Artificial Intelligence team filter, five months after it cut about 8,000 jobs and closed about 6,000 open roles.
What is Meta Superintelligence Labs?
It is the group that holds Meta’s AI research and model work, often shortened to MSL. On 24 October 2026, 24 posting titles on metacareers.com named it, from robotics research scientists to a finance manager.
Is FAIR still part of Meta?
Yes. FAIR lost roles in the October 2025 cut, but 18 posting titles named it on 24 October 2026, several written as MSL FAIR, mostly research scientist, research engineer and internship roles.
Does Meta hire AI data labelers directly?
The remote Data Labeling Analyst II contract read on 24 October 2026 was with Tundra Technical Solutions providing services to Meta, listed at $19.54 to $24.42 an hour on Meta’s contingent workforce portal.
Do Meta AI jobs require a PhD?
Research roles mostly name one. The MSL robotics research scientist posting asks for a PhD or equivalent practical experience, and the FAIR staff research scientist posting asks for a completed PhD before joining.
Where can I find AI work that is not at Meta?
The free public board at getaiwork.com/board/ lists screened roles with pay quoted only as the posting states it; on 23 October 2026 it held 1,712 live listings, 591 of them AI data work.
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