About the role#
This internship focuses on youth safety and integrity within the Facebook Youth and Controls team. You will work on machine learning problems that directly impact the content experiences of millions of teenagers. The team manages age-appropriate content, including parental supervision tools, Messenger Kids, and protective content tiers. You will tackle high-ambiguity challenges at the intersection of machine learning, integrity, and personalization.
What you'll do#
- Develop age-appropriate ranking and retrieval systems.
- Build age-signal modeling, including reconciling stated versus predicted age.
- Design safety-aware personalization and controls.
- Build LLM-judge and quality-evaluation infrastructure to ensure enforcement models meet youth-specific standards.
- Connect model improvements to real teen experiences through human judgments and online experiments.
- Advance proactive detection of harmful content for youth.
- Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, latency, and stability of safety models in production.
- Collaborate with researchers and cross-functional partners to drive projects from hypothesis to deployment.
- Publish research results.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in a degree program, with an intent to return after the internship.
- A track record of research achievements.
- Experience in areas such as trust and safety, integrity or abuse detection, content understanding, age modeling, personalization, reinforcement learning, or LLM pre-training and fine-tuning.
- Demonstrated software development experience.
- Ability to communicate and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- A clear interest in youth safety and integrity as a research domain.
- Majors in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
Location & details#
- Location: Bellevue, Washington.
- Modality: On-site.
- Duration: 12 to 16, or 24 weeks, with rolling start dates.
- Employment: Full-time internship.
- 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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