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Meta · 13 hours ago

Research Scientist Intern, Multimodal Learning for Robotics (PhD)

United States

Internship

Remote

Intern

$7,650/mo - $12,134/mo

Meta is a technology company focused on building immersive experiences through augmented and virtual reality. As a Research Scientist Intern, you will engage in research on robotic control and machine learning, developing algorithms for dextrous manipulation tasks.

Computer Software

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Conduct collaborative research on developing CV and tactile based algorithms for both human and robotics data

Develop robotic data pipelines for robotic dextrous manipulation, train models, and benchmark different algorithms

Collaborate with researchers and cross-functional partners including communicating research plans, progress, and results

Qualification

Computer VisionRobotic ManipulationPythonMachine LearningMultimodal LearningPhysics-based SimulatorsPyTorchCollaborationCommunication

Required

Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or relevant technical field

Experience in computer vision, with active contributions in at least one subdomain (3D reconstruction, hand pose estimation, object pose estimation) and strong familiarity across all

Understand state of the art in robotic manipulation control policies, with experience in physics based simulators like Mujoco

Experience with Python, PyTorch or JAX, or other related languages

Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Preferred

Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as Robotics (RSS, ICRA, IROS, CoRL, T-RO, IJRR), Machine Learning (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, JMLR), and Computer Vision (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI), or similar

Experience with multimodal learning including but not limited to tactile data

Experience working with robot manipulation

Experience with building pipelines with foundation CV models, for example, CLIP, DinoV2 or SAM2

Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment

Intent to return to the degree program after the completion of the internship/co-op

Availability for minimum 16 consecutive week internship