Research Scientist Intern, 3D Machine Perception and Generative AI (PhD)

Meta - Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time - Intern

Sunnyvale, CA

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About the position

The Research Scientist Intern in 3D Machine Perception and Generative AI at Meta is a role focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in machine perception and 3D scene understanding. The intern will engage in cutting-edge research to develop novel computer vision and machine learning techniques, contributing to the creation of egocentric machine perception functionalities and digital twins of 3D scenes for future AR and VR devices. This internship offers a unique opportunity to work alongside leading researchers and engineers in a collaborative environment, tackling significant challenges in the field.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute cutting-edge research and development to advance the state-of-the-art in machine perception, state estimation, reconstruction and rendering of 3D objects and scenes.
• Collaborate with other researchers and engineers across machine perception teams at Meta to develop experiments, prototypes, and concepts that advance the state-of-the-art in AR/VR and AI systems.
• Work with the team to help design, setup, and run practical experiments and prototype systems related to large-scale high quality sensing and machine reasoning.

Requirements

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the domain of computer-vision, computer graphics, 3D machine perception or machine learning.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience working with 3D and projective geometry, in addition to image-space computer vision.
• Hands-on experience implementing 3D computer vision algorithms as well as end-to-end training of ML models from data collection and design to evaluation.
• Experience working within Python environments such as pytorch.
• Experience working in a Unix environment.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Nice-to-haves

• 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 CVPR, ECCV/ICCV, SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, ICLR and NeurIPS.
• Strong track-record of published research in the fields of neural reconstruction, inverse rendering, neural rendering, object reconstruction and tracking, generative modeling.
• Strong programming experience using python and pytorch.
• Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub).
• Intent to return to a degree-program after the completion of the internship.
• Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment.

Benefits

• $7,500/month to $11,333/month compensation
• Health insurance
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities