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Research Scientist Intern, Robot Foundation Models (PhD)

Meta· Artificial Intelligence
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Redmond, WA$7.7k/mo - $12.7k/moInternPosted 4d ago

About the role

Internship focusing on learned models for dexterous manipulation, robot learning, and human-to-robot transfer. Twelve to twenty-four weeks with multiple start dates; mentorship across hardware, simulation, controls, and policy learning.

Responsibilities

  • Drive an independent research thread on learned control and motion transfer for dexterous hands, from problem formulation through real robot or high fidelity simulation evaluation.
  • Build training pipelines for modern policy classes, including flow matching and diffusion policies, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, large behavior models, and VLAs.
  • Develop representations that fuse multimodal human and robot data, including video, hand pose, tactile and contact force, and IMU, into a shared action space.
  • Construct data collection pipelines and benchmarks for dexterous manipulation, including held-out and out-of-distribution protocols that test generalization across objects, motions, and embodiments.
  • Collaborate across an interdisciplinary team of hardware, simulation, controls, and policy researchers, and communicate research plans, progress, and results.

Qualifications

  • Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or relevant technical field
  • Understanding of the state of the art in learned dexterous manipulation and control, with judgment about which open problems are worth advancing
  • Experience with Python and PyTorch or JAX, plus familiarity with ROS or comparable robotics middleware
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Skills

Required:Ph.D. in relevant fieldPythonPyTorch or JAXROS or robotics middleware

Benefits

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

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