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Research Scientist Intern, Multimodal LLM and Speech-to-Speech Translation (PhD)

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

About the role

Internship in Meta Reality Labs Research focused on advancing multimodal large language models and speech-to-speech translation for AR/VR experiences. Opportunities include integrating audio, speech, vision, and language for multimodal understanding and reasoning, conversational speech models, and streaming speech translation. Interns conduct original research, develop and evaluate models, and collaborate across disciplines.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct original research in multimodal large language models, speech foundation models, or speech-to-speech translation.
  • Develop models that jointly understand and reason over audio, speech, visual, and textual inputs, or generate natural speech across languages.
  • Investigate methods for model pretraining, multimodal alignment, instruction tuning, or streaming inference.
  • Design and execute experiments, establish baselines, and evaluate model quality, robustness, latency, and computational efficiency.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers across speech, audio, computer vision, and language modeling.
  • Communicate research ideas, progress, and results through presentations, technical reports, and research publications.

Qualifications

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Computational Linguistics, or a related STEM field
  • 3+ years of experience programming in Python or a similar language
  • 3+ years of experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • 2+ years of experience developing computational models in one or more of the following areas: speech processing, natural language processing, multimodal learning, or audio-visual learning
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Skills

Required:PythonPyTorchMachine learningSpeech processing / NLP / Multimodal learning

Benefits

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

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