Research Scientist Intern, Machine Perception for… at Meta · Redmond

Summary: Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. They are seeking an exceptional intern to assist in creating next generation interaction technologies for virtual and augmented reality, focusing on areas such as computer vision, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.

Responsibilities:
- Design and execution of algorithms in the domain of computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics, sensor fusion, or HCI software and hardware prototyping
- Design of user studies and experiments
- Collaboration with other researchers across various disciplines
- Communication of research agenda, progress, and results

Required Qualifications:
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in EE/CS, Applied Math or a related STEM field
- Experience in one or more of the following: computer vision (e.g. tracking, pose estimation, action/emotion recognition), computer graphics (e.g. appearance, geometry, physically-based modeling), robotics (state estimation, optimal control), machine learning (e.g. efficient deep learning, domain adaptation, transfer learning), natural language processing, or human-computer interaction
- Excellent communication skills
- High levels of creativity and problem solving capabilities
- Experience with C++ or Python
- Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc
- Must obtain work authorization in 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 grants, fellowships, patents, or first-authored publications at leading journals or conferences such as CVPR, ECCV/ICCV, BMVC, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CHI, SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, ICRA, IROS, RSS, TPAMI, IJCV, etc
- Demonstrated software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)
- Experiences working on high volume multi-sensor streaming data processing and real-time multi-sensor, in particular cameras, fusion for computer vision and machine learning systems
- Experiences on optimizing and deploying deep learning models on SoC of mobile devices for high performance real time applications
- Experience with Machine Learning for 3D data (such as meshes, point clouds, gaussian splatting, and voxels)
- Experience with Machine Learning for Visual Synthesis

Required Skills: PhD in EE/CS or related STEM field, Computer Vision, Pose Estimation, Action Recognition, Emotion Recognition, Computer Graphics, Appearance Modeling, Geometry Modeling, Physically-Based Modeling, Robotics, State Estimation, Optimal Control, Machine Learning, Efficient Deep Learning, Domain Adaptation, Transfer Learning, Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, C++, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Sensor Fusion, 3D Data Machine Learning, Visual Synthesis Machine Learning