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Sunnyvale, CA

Research Scientist Intern, AI Core Machine Learning (PhD)

Internship
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Meta

Social network and technology platform
71.8
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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.Meta is seeking Research Interns to join Monetization Ranking & AI Foundations where we strive to serve the best personalized ads to people, maximizing their personal utility and advertiser value. We are committed to making fundamental advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies that can be applied to all aspects of Monetization, including but not limited to, ranking, retrieval, supply, model architecture, representation learning, optimization, and generally a deep understanding of the users, ads, and any signals and contents related to their interactions.Our interns closely collaborate with researchers and engineers within the organization and across the company (e.g., FAIR), push the boundaries of state-of-the-art research in AI and ML, share the latest findings through top-tier publications and open source, and integrate innovations at an unprecedented scale.Our internships are twelve (12) to sixteen (16), or twenty-four (24) weeks long and we have various start dates throughout the year.

Research Scientist Intern, AI Core Machine Learning (PhD) Responsibilities

Conduct state-of-the-art research to advance the science and technology of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Develop novel algorithms and corresponding systems, leveraging various AI and ML techniques.

Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of corresponding deployed algorithms.

Collaborate with researchers and engineers across varied disciplines, including communicating research plans, progress, and results.

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

Minimum Qualifications

Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Information or Multimedia Retrieval, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Optimization, Computational Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related technical fields

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

Experience with deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch or Tensorflow

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

Experience with research and building systems based on machine learning and/or deep learning methods

Preferred Qualifications

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

Proven track record of achieving significant research results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, NAACL, ICASSP, or similar

Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)

Demonstrated experience and self-driven motivation in solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches

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

Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment

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About the company

Meta

Company overview
Meta builds consumer apps and platforms used by billions of people, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. Meta makes most revenue from advertising across these products, and the company also runs Reality Labs for AR and VR hardware and software. Meta also invests heavily in AI research and product development across the company’s apps and infrastructure.

Locations and presence

Meta is headquartered in Menlo Park, California and hires across major hubs in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Work setup is generally hybrid for many corporate roles, with multi-day office expectations, and Instagram announced a five-day in-office requirement for desk-assigned U.S. staff starting February 2, 2026.

Palpable Score

71.8
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Meta offers multiple credible early-career doors, including internships, “University Grad” roles, and rotational programs that are explicitly positioned as immersive learning experiences. Pay signals look competitive and often transparent via published ranges and widely reported intern and new-grad compensation, but early-career predictability is reduced by mixed candidate experiences and widely reported workforce churn in parts of the business.
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