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Research Scientist Intern, AI & System Co-Design (PhD)

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Menlo Park, CAInternship$7,650–12,667/moSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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Compensation
$7,650–12,667/mo
Location
Menlo Park, CA
Role Type
Internship
Schedule
Internship
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Doctorate

Job overview

The AI System SW/HW Co-design team develops and productizes high-performance software and hardware technologies for AI at datacenter scale. The Research Scientist Intern will conduct research on AI workloads and distributed systems, developing architectures for software/hardware co-design. The team works across GPUs and ASICs, recommendation models, LLMs, and training and inference workloads. Internships last 12 to 24 weeks, with various start dates throughout the year.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Hardware ArchitectureDistributed SystemsAI FrameworksHigh Performance ComputingNumericsPerformance OptimizationAI HardwareC/C++PythonPyTorchResearch CollaborationQuantitative AnalysisTheoretical ResearchEmpirical ResearchResearch CommunicationCross-Functional Communication

Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science or Related STEMGrants, Fellowships, Patents, or PublicationsReturn to Degree ProgramWork Authorization in Employment Country

Full job description

Summary:

The AI System SW/HW Co-design team’s mission is to explore, develop, and help productize high-performance software and hardware technologies for AI at datacenter scale. We achieve this via concurrent design, performance projection, and optimization of many aspects of the system such as models, algorithms, numerics, performance, and AI hardware including compute, networking, and storage. We drive the AI HW roadmap at Meta and ensure our existing and future AI workloads and software are well optimized and suited for new infrastructure. The team works across HW types (GPUs, ASICs), workload types (Recommendation Models, LLM, LDM) and workloads (Training & Inference). See our webpage https://aisystemcodesign.github.io for a broader introduction to how we operate as well as our recent publications.We’re a diverse group of problem solvers driven by a culture of experimentation and innovation. As a Research Scientist Intern, you will be a key member of a team of innovators, working on leading AI workloads and distributed systems, and developing architectures to enable the future of AI SW/HW co-design.Our team at Meta AI offers twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) weeks long internships and we have various start dates throughout the year. To learn more about our research, visit https://ai.facebook.com.

Required Skills:

Research Scientist Intern, AI & System Co-Design (PhD) Responsibilities:

  1. Lead and support research that accelerates ML applications over one or more of software, system and accelerator architectures, optimizing training and/or inference of next generation AI workloads at Meta.

  2. Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, while identifying intermediate milestones.

  3. Lead and collaborate on research projects with other researchers and engineers across diverse disciplines.

  4. Communicate research agenda, progress and results.

  5. Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of Computer Science or a related STEM field

  2. Strong knowledge of Hardware Architecture,Distributed systems, and AI Frameworks with interest in one or more of High Performance Computing, Numerics, Performance, and AI hardware including compute, networking, and storage

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

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Track record of achieving results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as MICRO, ISCA, HPCA, ASPLOS, ATC, SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, MLSys, Neurips, ICML, ICLR, or similar

  2. Experience or knowledge in developing and debugging in C/C++, Python and/or PyTorch

  3. Experience driving original scholarship in collaboration with a team

  4. Experience leading a team in solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches

  5. Experience in theoretical and empirical research and for answering questions with research

  6. Experience communicating research for public audiences of peers

  7. Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment

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

Public Compensation:

$7,650/month to $12,667/month + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

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 [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 2,306 open Research Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$7,650–12,667/mo
  • California median$183–270K/yr503 salary ranges
  • US median$34–48/hr45 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 722 open Research Scientist jobs in California and 2,306 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Research Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 6 years (1,277 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a doctorate or professional degree; 832 of the 2,306 open Research Scientist jobs (36%) ask for a doctorate or professional degree.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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