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Research Scientist Intern, World-Model Aware Perception & Communication (PhD)

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Redmond, WA$7.7k/mo - $12.7k/moInternPosted 4d ago

About the role

PhD-level internship in Meta Reality Labs Research (Surreal group) focused on semantic compression and world-model–aware perception and communication for contextual AI in future devices. 12–24 week internships with multiple start dates.

Responsibilities

  • Create novel systems and components for semantic compression and communication systems that are efficient and achieve high performance through a combination of algorithms and machine learning.
  • Significantly advance the state of the art for end-to-end approaches along the full compression/communications and machine learning pipeline (including sensor captures, wireless transmission, latent representation, neural encoding and decoding).
  • Rapidly design, develop, prototype, execute and analyze the above systems and components for contextual AI systems for future devices.
  • Collaborate with other researchers across various disciplines in a highly cross-functional and interdisciplinary team.

Qualifications

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD in the field of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field
  • Demonstrated research experience in Compression, Communications, Computer Vision, Digital Twin, World Model, or Machine Learning
  • 2+ years experience in using Python or C++ for Machine Learning and Computer Vision
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Skills

Required:PhD in related fieldPythonC++

Benefits

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

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