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Research Scientist Intern, Robotics - Meta Superintelligence Labs (PhD)

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Menlo Park, CA$7.7k/mo - $12.7k/moInternPosted 3w ago

About the role

Robotics and Embodied AI Research Scientist Intern to join Meta Superintelligence Labs. Interns work on fundamental and applied research in embodied AI, robotics, transfer learning, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, perception, robot control, navigation, and vision-language models, with opportunities to contribute to open science over a 12–24 week internship.

Responsibilities

  • Perform fundamental and applied research to push the scientific and technological frontiers of embodied artificial intelligence.
  • Collaborate with research scientists and engineers to design and implement state-of-the-art AI algorithms and models.
  • Invent/improve novel data-driven paradigms for robotics, leveraging a variety of modalities (images, video, text, audio, tactile, etc).
  • 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 intelligence.
  • Develop algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies.
  • Build and benchmark new capabilities needed for the next generation of AI.
  • Conduct research towards long-term research goals while identifying intermediate milestones.

Qualifications

  • Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning or related STEM field
  • Experience with any of the following research areas: robotics, motion planning, embodied AI, human-robot interaction, sim-to-real transfer, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, dexterous manipulation, digital agents, vision language models, computer vision, egocentric perception, and/or LLMs
  • Experience with machine learning models, and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc
  • Interpersonal experience: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Skills

Required:Ph.D. candidacy or degree in relevant STEM fieldRoboticsMachine learning frameworks

Benefits

  • Benefits mentioned on Meta benefits page (not enumerated in description)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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