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Research Scientist Intern, Systems ML - SW/HW Co-Design - CPUSys (PhD)

Meta· Artificial Intelligence
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Menlo Park, CA$7.7k/mo - $12.7k/moInternPosted 1w ago

About the role

Internship in Meta's System SW/HW Co-design team focusing on research at the intersection of software, hardware, and systems for datacenter-scale workloads. Drive workload analysis, co-design activities, and roadmap influence to deliver next-generation compute and storage architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Develop tools and methodologies for large scale workload analysis and extract representative benchmarks (in C++/Rust/Python/Hack) to drive early evaluation of upcoming platforms.
  • Analyze evolving Meta workload trends and business needs to derive requirements for future offerings.
  • Apply in depth knowledge of how the distributed systems interact with the compute and storage systems around.
  • Utilize extensive understanding of CPUs (x86/ARM), Flash/HDD storage systems, networking, and GPUs to identify bottlenecks and enhance product/service efficiency.
  • Collaborate closely with software developers to re-architect services, improve codebase through algorithm redesign, reduce resource consumption, and identify hardware/software co-design opportunities.
  • Identify industry trends, analyze emerging technologies and disruptive paradigms.
  • Conduct prototyping exercises to quantify the value proposition for Meta and develop adoption plans.
  • Influence vendor hardware roadmap and broader ecosystem to align with Meta's roadmap requirements.
  • Work with Software Services, Product Engineering, and Infrastructure Engineering teams to find the optimal way to deliver the hardware roadmap into production and drive adoption.

Qualifications

  • Currently in the process of obtaining, PhD degree in the field of Computer Science or a related STEM field
  • Experience with hardware architecture, compute technologies and/or storage systems
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Skills

Required:C++RustPythonCPU architectures (x86/ARM)Storage systems (Flash/HDD)
Nice to have:HackDistributed systemsPyTorch

Benefits

  • United States of America: $7,650/month to $12,667/month + benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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