# Research Scientist Intern, AI Research - Perception (PhD)

[Meta](https://www.jorb.ai/firms/meta.md) · New York · United States · [Research / Applied Science](https://www.jorb.ai/jobs/research-applied-science.md)

Meta is hiring a Research Scientist Intern, AI Research - Perception (PhD) in New York. Posted 2025-11-12; applications close 2026-01-11.

**Apply**: https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/719404640594626

Posted 5mo ago.

## Role details

## Overview

Meta is seeking Research Interns to join the Multimedia Perception team in the Applied Research organization of Meta Superintelligence Labs. We are committed to advancing the field of artificial intelligence by making fundamental advances in technologies to help interact with and understand our world. We are seeking individuals who are passionate about Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. Our interns have an opportunity to make core algorithmic advances and apply their ideas at an unprecedented scale.

Our internships are twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) weeks long with various start dates throughout the year. To learn more about our research, visit https://research.facebook.com.

## Responsibilities

  
- Perform research that enables learning the semantics of data (primarily images, video, 3D structures, text, and other modalities like audio).
  
- Brainstorm with research mentors, review literature and existing solutions for challenging real-world research problems.
  
- Develop novel solutions, implement prototypes, and perform extensive experiments to test proposed solutions in meaningful benchmarks and metrics; analyze results and verify conclusions.
  
- Contribute to ongoing research projects and impactful technology releases.
  
- Draft and polish research publications and present research outcomes to internal and/or external audiences.

## Qualifications

  
- Currently pursuing or possessing a PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a relevant technical field.
  
- Research and/or work experience in Computer Vision, including recognition, 2D/3D localization, segmentation and tracking of objects, people, and activities, and/or 3D pose estimation and 3D reconstruction, and/or grounded image and video understanding (egocentric vision, vision-language foundational models, unsupervised/semisupervised/supervised representation learning, and related areas).
  
- Research and/or work experience in Machine Learning or Deep Learning with applications to perception.
  
- Experience in Python, C++, or other related programming languages.
  
- Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
  
- A proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, and/or first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences in Computer Vision (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV), Speech & Language (ACL, EMNLP, ICASSP, NAACL), Machine Learning (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI), or Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH).
  
- Experience advancing AI techniques, including contributions to open-source libraries and frameworks.
  
- Experience working and communicating cross-functionally in a team environment.
  
- Experience using theoretical and empirical research to solve problems.
  
- Ability to manipulate and analyze complex, large-scale, high-dimensional data from varying sources.
  
- Intent to return to the degree program after the completion of the internship/co-op.
  
- Demonstrated software engineering experience through internships, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open-source repositories.

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Updated: 2026-04-22
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