About the role#
As a Research Scientist Intern on the Media Foundation Core Audio team, you will work on machine learning problems related to audio and speech signal processing. You will contribute to technologies used across platforms like WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and Facebook. Your work will focus on areas such as streaming speech enhancement, neural audio codecs, and efficient on-device inference. Interns define problems, build solutions, and identify paths to apply research results to product development.
What you'll do#
- Perform research to advance audio, speech, multimodal, and machine learning technologies.
- Design, train, and evaluate models for audio applications including enhancement, restoration, compression, and generation.
- Build reproducible evaluation pipelines using objective metrics, human listening tests, and robustness analysis.
- Improve model quality, latency, scalability, and stability under practical constraints like network and power limitations.
- Collaborate with researchers and software engineers to communicate research plans, progress, and results.
- Publish research findings and contribute to work applicable to Meta products.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in a Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, Computer Vision, or a related field.
- Experience with Python, C++, C, or Java.
- Proficiency with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Familiarity with machine learning and common deep learning architectures.
- Ability to obtain and maintain work authorization in the country of employment.
- Intent to return to your degree program after the internship.
- A record of research achievements through publications, patents, or fellowships.
- Experience with reinforcement learning, large language models, sequence modeling, or diffusion models.
- Demonstrated software development experience through internships, coding competitions, or open source contributions.
Location & details#
- Locations: Bellevue, Washington; Menlo Park, California.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time internship.
- Compensation: $7,650 to $12,667 per month.
- Term: Rolling start dates with durations of 12, 16, or 24 weeks.
About Meta
Meta develops software and social media applications. It operates platforms such as Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The company maintains headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Current work focuses on augmented and virtual reality alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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