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Materials Engineer Intern- Surface Finishing, Coating (PhD)

Meta· Engineering
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)InternPosted 1w ago

About the role

Meta Reality Labs seeks a Materials Engineer - Surface Finishing, Coating (SUN) - Ph.D. Intern to bring new materials to consumer products at scale. The role focuses on testing, evaluating, and developing surface finishing and coating solutions to enable technology and manufacturing processes in RL products.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute testing and evaluation of material surface and coatings to determine performance and drive material selection of RL products.
  • Identify and develop new novel finishing and coating to enable technology and manufacturing process solutions to be integrated in RL products.
  • Support high volume production with material challenges.

Qualifications

  • PhD or PhD students in Material Science, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
  • First principle understanding of fundamental material microstructure, interfacial interaction, and its correlation with mechanical properties and reliability
  • Experience of developing, testing, evaluating and specifying various coatings
  • Knowledge with cosmetic surface finishing and coating materials and processes - Organic, Inorganic, PVD, CVD, Plating, Spray etc
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
  • Intent to return to full-time degree program after completion of the internship

Skills

Required:Coatings development and testingSurface finishing

Benefits

  • In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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