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Research Scientist Intern, Central Applied Science (PhD)

Meta· Research
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Menlo Park, CA$7.7k/mo - $12.7k/moInternPosted 4d ago

About the role

PhD internship in Central Applied Science (CAS) focusing on statistical modeling, economics, experimentation, game theory, GenAI Modeling and Evaluation. Twelve to twenty-four weeks with start dates throughout the year; collaboration across Meta teams to deliver data-driven, scalable statistical solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Build pragmatic, scalable, and statistically rigorous solutions to mission critical inferential and decision problems by leveraging or developing state of the art statistical and machine learning methodologies on top of Meta’s unparalleled data infrastructure.
  • Apply excellent communication skills in order to develop cross-functional partnerships throughout the company and spread statistical best practices.
  • Be able to work both independently and collaboratively with other scientists, engineers, designers, UX researchers, and product managers to accomplish complex tasks that deliver demonstrable value to Meta’s community of over 3.5 billion users.
  • Think creatively, proactively, and futuristically to identify new opportunities within Meta’s long term roadmap for data-scientific contributions.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Information Science, Economics, Operations Research, Data Science, Quantitative Marketing or relevant technical field (or currently pursuing)
  • Experience in machine learning and statistical research covering at least one of: statistical modeling, behavioral modeling, economics, model evaluation or generative AI
  • 1+ years in programming, analysis, and visualization using Python or R
  • Interpersonal experience: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration
  • Experience in scalable dataset assembly/data wrangling (e.g., Hive, Spark, Presto)
  • Must obtain and maintain work authorization in the country of employment at time of hire

Skills

Required:Statistical modelingMachine learning
Nice to have:Economics / Game theoryGenAI Modeling and Evaluation

Benefits

  • Benefits post-internal details (provided by Meta)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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