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Research Scientist Intern, Smart Glasses in Wearables AI (PhD)

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New York, NYInternship$7,650–12,667/moSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$7,650–12,667/mo
Location
New York, NY
Role Type
Internship
Schedule
Internship
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Doctorate, required

Job overview

Meta’s Wearables AI team conducts product-motivated research to advance AI technologies for smart glasses. The Research Scientist Intern will develop models and algorithms, with the goal of publishing and deploying outcomes. The team works across on-device and server-side AI, and the internship offers opportunities to make algorithmic advances and apply ideas at scale. Internships last 12 to 24 weeks, with start dates throughout the year.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Python, requiredC++, requiredC, requiredJava, requiredDeep Learning Frameworks, requiredTheoretical Research, nice to haveEmpirical Research, nice to haveMachine Learning, nice to haveNatural Language Processing, nice to haveSpeech and Audio Understanding, nice to haveComputer Vision, nice to haveMultimodal Reasoning and Retrieval, nice to haveReinforcement Learning, nice to haveSearch and Recommendations, nice to haveLiterature Review, nice to haveReproducing Research Results, nice to haveSoftware Engineering, nice to haveEnterprise AI Platforms, nice to haveBig Data Management, nice to haveGPU Computing, nice to haveCross-Functional Communication, nice to have

Qualifications

PhD in Relevant Technical Field, requiredWork Authorization in Employment Country, requiredSignificant Research Results, nice to haveFirst-Authored Publications, nice to havePrevious Software Engineering Experience, nice to have

Full job description

Summary:

Meta was built to help people connect and share, and over the last decade our tools have played a critical part in changing how people around the world communicate with one another. With over a billion people using the service and more than fifty offices around the globe, a career at Meta offers countless ways to make an impact in a fast growing organization.The Wearables AI team at Meta works to advance the field of artificial intelligence by making fundamental advances in technologies to help Humans interact with and understand our world. We conduct product-motivated research in ML/AI, develop state-of-the-art algorithms and deploy models to the RayBan | Meta family of smart glasses. We work on most aspects of AI, in on-device and server-side settings. As a Research Scientist Intern, you will help us develop innovative models and algorithms, with a goal of publishing and deploying the outcomes.We are seeking individuals passionate in areas such as deep learning, computer vision and multi-media, audio and speech processing, natural language processing, personalization and recommendations, machine learning, reinforcement learning, computational statistics, and applied mathematics. 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 and we have various start dates throughout the year.

Required Skills:

Research Scientist Intern, Smart Glasses in Wearables AI (PhD) Responsibilities:

  1. Perform research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines.

  2. Develop novel and accurate NLP algorithms and systems, leveraging Deep Learning and Machine Learning on big data resources.

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

  4. Publish research results and contribute to research that can be applied to Meta product development.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Multi-modal Systems, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Audio Processing, Conversational AI, or other relevant technical field

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

  3. Experience with Python, C++, C, Java or other related languages

  4. Experience building systems with deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch or Tensorflow

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. A strong interest in theoretical and empirical research and for answering difficult questions with research

  2. Experience in at least one ML/AI area such as Natural Language Processing (Translation, Summarization, Dialog, NER, etc), Speech and Audio Understanding (Recognition, Synthesis, Signal Processing), Computer Vision (Image or Video Analysis), Multi-modal (image, video, audio, text, etc) Reasoning & Retrieval, Reinforcement Learning, Search and Recommendations

  3. 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 ACL, NAACL, EACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, RecSys, KDD, IJCAI, CVPR, ECCV, ICASSP, or similar

  4. Ability to stay in touch with the literature of a particular domain and ability to quickly reproduce results, if needed

  5. Demonstrated software engineering experience via a previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)

  6. Experience with the utilization of enterprise level AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning/ LLM platforms involving big data management and GPU compute

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

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 2,123 open Research Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$7,650–12,667/mo
  • New York median$100–133K/yr280 salary ranges
  • US median$34–49/hr47 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 348 open Research Scientist jobs in New York and 2,123 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Research Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (1,179 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a doctorate or professional degree; 779 of the 2,123 open Research Scientist jobs (37%) ask for a doctorate or professional degree.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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