Research scientist - language

Summary:

Meta is seeking Research Interns to join Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) Multimodal Foundations teams. These teams 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 passionate in areas such as Natural Language Processing, Audio and Speech processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning. Our interns have an opportunity to make core algorithmic advances and apply their ideas at an unprecedented scale.Our teams are looking for candidates with expertise in the Natural Language Processing & Multimodality domains, such as: machine translation, speech translation, natural language understanding and generation, computer vision, language modeling, pretraining and post-training, low-resource NLP, question answering, dialogue, cross-lingual and cross-domain transfer learning, and multimodal understanding, reasoning and generation.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

Required Skills:

Research Scientist Intern, FAIR - Language & Multimodal Foundations (PhD) Responsibilities:

Perform research that enables learning the semantics of data (specifically text, audio, images, video, and other modalities)

Brainstorm with research mentors, review literature and existing solutions of a challenging real-world research problem

Develop novel solutions, implement prototypes, and perform extensive experiments to test the proposed solutions in meaningful benchmarks and metrics, analyze the results and verify the conclusions

Draft and polish research reports and/or publications

Present research outcomes to internal and/or external audiences

Contribute research that can be applied to Meta product development

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or equivalent

Research and/or work experience in Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or equivalent

Experience in Python, C++, or other related languages

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:

Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops or conferences in Speech & Language (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, TACL, ICASSP, Interspeech, SLT, ASRU, TASLP)

Experience advancing AI techniques in Natural Language Processing, including contributions to open source libraries and frameworks in Speech & Language

Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops or conferences in Computer Vision (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV) or Machine Learning (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)

Experience advancing AI techniques in Computer Vision and/or Machine Learning

Experience manipulating and analyzing complex, large scale, high-dimensionality data from varying sources

Experience in utilizing theoretical and empirical research to solve problems

Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment

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

Public Compensation:

$7,650/month to $12,134/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.

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