About the role#
Meta is seeking Research Scientist Interns to join the Scam and Trust team. Scams present a global financial threat, and protecting users at our scale requires proactive detection and prevention. You will work alongside research scientists and engineers to translate real-world challenges into focused research projects. This role involves developing novel modeling and evaluation methods to address adversarial tactics that span content, behavior, and social networks.
What you'll do#
- Formulate and investigate a focused research question in adversarial scam detection.
- Develop LLM reasoning and representation-learning methods that combine content, behavioral, or social-network evidence.
- Research agentic systems that plan investigations, use tools, and synthesize evidence.
- Investigate recursive self-improvement and feedback-driven methods to improve agent strategies and workflows.
- Design experiments to evaluate robustness under noisy labels, distribution shift, and computational constraints.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to prototype approaches and assess their applicability to production.
- Document findings and contribute to research publications that inform product development.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, or a related technical field.
- Intent to return to your degree program after the internship.
- Experience with deep learning frameworks and building systems based on machine learning or natural language processing.
- Familiarity with generative model training and architectures like Transformers or BERT.
- A track record of research achievements, such as publications at conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or KDD.
- Experience in areas such as LLM reasoning, agentic systems, reinforcement learning, or graph representations.
- Demonstrated software development experience through internships, work, or open-source contributions.
- Ability to work and communicate effectively within a team.
- Must obtain and maintain work authorization in the United States.
Location & details#
- Location: Menlo Park, California.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time.
- Compensation: $7,650 to $12,667 per month.
- Duration: 12, 16, or 24 weeks with rolling start dates.
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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