Research Scientist Intern, Photorealistic Telepresence (PhD)

About the role

Meta’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, giving them ways to share what matters most to them, and helping bring people closer together. Our org, XR Codec Interactions and Avatar, is looking for exceptional research interns to help us create a revolution in AR and VR: achieving true photorealistic telepresence, where you can be with anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Responsibilities

• Solve research problems in enabling photorealistic telepresence and autonomous social agents.
• Collaboration with and support of other researchers across various disciplines.
• Communication of research agenda, progress, and results.

Requirements

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Robotics, Machine Learning, or related field.
• Experience with solving “inverse problems” in imaging emphasizing modeling and algorithm development.
• 2+ years of experience with Machine Learning for solving computer vision and computer graphics problems.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch and TensorBoard.
• Experience with scientific programming languages such as Python.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by patents and first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as ICCV, CVPR, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, ICASSP, or similar.
• Intent to return to a degree-program after the completion of the internship.
• Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment.
• Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub).
• Experience with systems building in Python or C++.
• Experience with large-scale generative models such as LLMs and video diffusion models.
• Experience with Machine Learning for 3D data (such as meshes, point clouds, gaussian splatting, and voxels).
• Experience with Machine Learning for audio and visual synthesis.

Benefits

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@meta.com.

Pay

$7,650/month to $12,134/month + benefits

Schedule

Research Scientist Intern, Photorealistic Telepresence (PhD) - Available projects may include, but are not limited to: Generative AI models for image and video synthesis, Motion and behavior synthesis for digital humans, VR/AR encoding of social signals, Face and body reconstruction and tracking, Multimodal LLMs, such as speech-to-speech LLMs and audio-visual LLMs.