Research Scientist Intern, Foundation Model Optimization; PhD

Meta's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together, and the Meta Reality Labs organization focuses on delivering this vision through AR/VR/SG devices.

Meta's Efficiency and On-Device AI team within the Reality Labs organization is seeking a Research Scientist Intern with a focus on language/vision model optimization. As a Research Scientist Intern, your primary objective is to develop cutting‑edge efficient LLMs and vision foundation models.

• Currently is in the process of obtaining a PhD in the field of Artificial Intelligence or related field
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
• Hands‑on experience in deep learning algorithms and techniques, e.g., transformers
• Experience with deep learning software libraries such as PyTorch/JAX
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python and shell scripts
• Intent to return to degree‑program after the completion of the internship
• Experience with large scale foundation model training and on‑device foundation model optimization
• Experience in one or more of: LLM agents and orchestration, personalization, model compression and efficient inference, efficient model architectures, multi‑modal modeling, data‑centric approaches for model tuning and evaluation
• Proven track record of publications at CV/NLP/ML conferences/journals such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP