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Research Scientist Intern, Low-Power Scene Reconstruction for AR/VR

Meta· Reality Labs / XR Graphics
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Redmond, WA$7.7k/mo - $12.7k/moInternPosted 4d ago

About the role

Research Scientist Intern role focused on low-power, real-time reconstruction of scene geometry for AR/VR, exploring a shared, lightweight scene representation and depth estimation strategies within glasses-powered power budgets. You will own open problems, build evaluations, and contribute to publications where warranted.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and execute research to advance the state of the art in low-power, real-time scene reconstruction for AR/VR — spanning depth estimation, occlusion, and geometric scene understanding.
  • Explore the extent to which a shared, learned scene representation can serve multiple downstream consumers at different latency and accuracy points.
  • Define evaluation methodology and run experiments measuring geometric accuracy, temporal stability, rendering distortion, latency, and compute and power cost on real multi-sensor device captures.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers across the passthrough, scene understanding, and on-device compute teams to assess feasibility within headset and glasses power envelopes.
  • Document and present findings, and contribute to publications and patents where the results warrant it.

Qualifications

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics, robotics, or related technical field
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
  • Knowledge and hands-on experience in at least one of: depth or stereo estimation, 3D reconstruction (TSDF, implicit or neural fields, Gaussian splatting), video or instance segmentation, or neural scene representations
  • Experience designing and running quantitative experiments, and communicating technical results

Skills

Required:PhD in relevant fieldDepth or stereo estimation3D reconstruction techniquesNeural scene representationsExperiment planning & reporting

Benefits

  • benefits information available via Meta benefits page (not listed here in detail)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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