Meta is hiring a Research Scientist Intern, Embodied AI & Robotics (PhD)

Meta was built to help people connect and share, and over the last decade our tools have played a critical part in changing how people around the world communicate with one another. With over a billion people using the service and more than fifty offices around the globe, a career at Meta offers countless ways to make an impact in a fast growing organization.

Meta AI is seeking Research Interns to join Fundamental AI Research (FAIR). We are committed to advancing the field of artificial intelligence by making fundamental advances in technologies to help interact with and understand our world. We are seeking individuals passionate in areas such as embodied AI, robotics, computer vision, deep learning, machine learning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, audio and speech processing, computational statistics, and applied mathematics. Our interns have an opportunity to make core algorithmic advances and apply their ideas at an unprecedented scale.

Our team at Meta AI offers twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) weeks long internships and we have various start dates throughout the year. To learn more about our research, visit https://research.facebook.com.Research Scientist Intern, Embodied AI & Robotics (PhD) Responsibilities

• Perform fundamental and applied research to push the scientific and technological frontiers of embodied artificial intelligence.
• Invent/ improve novel data driven paradigms for embodied intelligence.
• Explore, and conceptualize ways to leverage various data modalities (images, video, text, audio, tactile, etc) and the roles they play in various levels of embodied reasoning and decision making.
• Investigate paradigms that can deliver a spectrum of embodied behaviors - from simulated characters to real robots, and from short horizon, low level to long horizon, high level.
• Enable long-horizon reasoning for Embodied AI tasks (navigation, mobile manipulation, instruction following, collaboration with humans) in human environments given natural-language instructions, like “clean up the house”, or “where are my glasses”.
• Perform broad dexterous and functional manipulation (rigid to deformable objects
• in-hand to against the environment) in a generalizable manner
• Develop the next generation of simulation platforms (e.g. Habitat)

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or related fields
• Experience in deep learning frameworks (such as pytorch, tensorflow), C, C++, Python
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Publications or experience in robotics, embodied AI, human-robot interaction, machine learning, computer vision, optimization, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, or data science
• Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches
• Experience with manipulating and analyzing complex, large scale, high-dimensionality data from varying sources
• Experience building systems based on machine learning and/or deep learning methods
• Intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship/co-op
• Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops or conferences in Machine Learning (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR), Robotics (ICRA, IROS, RSS, CoRL), Computer Vision (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV) and NLP (ACL, NAACL).

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.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.

$7,650/month to $10,250/month + benefits