About the role#
This internship focuses on advancing visual localization and spatial reasoning for AR/VR platforms. You will work on developing lightweight vision-language models that help devices understand their location, orientation, and surroundings in both indoor and outdoor environments. Your research will contribute to how devices interpret semantic and geometric evidence from images and map data.
What you'll do#
- Research, develop, and prototype technologies in computer vision, multimodal machine learning, and visual localization.
- Build datasets, benchmarks, and metrics to measure localization accuracy, latency, and cost.
- Compare new methods against frontier vision-language models.
- Analyze the stability, scalability, and efficiency of existing technologies to identify research opportunities.
- Deliver results that are suitable for publication and have a direct impact on Reality Labs or Meta products.
- Collaborate with team members through all project stages, from initial research to prototyping and deployment.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in computer vision, machine learning, vision-language models, or visual localization.
- A track record of results, such as patents, grants, fellowships, or publications at conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML.
- Proficiency in Python or modern C++.
- Experience with PyTorch or similar deep learning frameworks.
- Intent to return to your degree program after the internship.
- Research experience in areas like camera pose estimation, visual place recognition, image geolocalization, or scene text recognition.
- Mathematical background in probabilistic estimation, numerical optimization, linear algebra, 3D geometry, and camera models.
- Experience with fine-tuning or training vision-language models, including reinforcement learning, distillation, or efficient inference.
- Familiarity with positioning signals, floor plans, and map data.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across groups and cultures.
Location & details#
- Locations: Redmond, WA and Boston, MA.
- Work Modality: On-site.
- Employment Type: Full-time intern.
- Compensation: $7,650 to $12,667 per month.
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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