Research Scientist Intern, Multimodal Behavioral AI (PhD) at Meta in Redmond, Washington

Job Description:

Meta Reality Labs (Redmond, WA) is looking for exceptional interns to solve complex challenges in behavioral inference from sparse information. Our team of world-class researchers leverages multimodal, egocentric data and cutting edge machine learning to deliver robust, efficient models that serve everyone. Our research provides core building blocks to unlock comfortable, intuitive, and helpful Wearable AI, empowering everyone to harness the superpowers of this emerging technology in their daily lives.We welcome PhD students in computer science, machine learning, robotics, or related fields. In particular, we are looking for candidates with experience in multimodal inference of complex systems, often with limited or ambiguous ground truth. We welcome students with a passion for working in a strongly collaborative team that spans research across human behavior, robust algorithms, and systems prototyping and optimization.Our team at Meta Reality Labs offers twelve (12) to twenty four (24) week long internships and we have various start dates throughout the year. Some projects may require a minimum of sixteen (16) consecutive weeks.

Research Scientist Intern, Multimodal Behavioral AI (PhD) Responsibilities:

• Using only data from wearable devices, develop novel state-of-the-art AI algorithms to infer human behavior patterns that inform attention, cognition or emotion. Examples include longitudinal gaze behaviors, gestures, or vocal cues


• Develop data collection strategies, benchmarks, and metrics to validate and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of these models


• Collaborate with researchers and engineers across diverse disciplines through all stages of project development


• Contribute to research that can eventually be applied to Meta products and services and run on billions of media items every day


• Regular communication of research agenda, progress and results


• Publish research results in top-tier journals and at leading international conferences

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD in the field of Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field


• Programming experience in Python and with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch


• Deep learning experience with modern generative AI frameworks


• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Past experience with interdisciplinary, cross-group and cross-culture collaboration


• Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches


• Comfort analyzing high-volume natural language and multimodal data from varying sources


• Experience with optimization of machine learning algorithms with limited data and on constrained hardware


• Experience communicating complex research in a clear, precise, and actionable manner


• Proven track record of achieving results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, and/or first-authored publications at workshops or top AI conferences such as CVPR, NeurIPS, CHI, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP or similar journals


• Intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.



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Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.


$7,800/month to $11,293/month + benefits


Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta. Apply Now