Research Intern — Crypto and Internet Technology, Statistics & Privacy (PhD)

Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Job Description

Our Statistics & Privacy team focuses on establishing step-change improvements to advance Facebook’s long-term business growth. The team's expertise spans many domains including statistics, machine learning, economics, and cryptography. We develop methodologies, design and prototype solutions, and partner with our engineering colleagues to launch these solutions such that millions of advertisers can benefit. We seek Research Interns to identify new opportunities and help build scientifically rigorous systems focused on enhancing technological guarantees for consumer privacy while simultaneously expanding the efficiency of Facebook’s market-leading advertising systems. Challenges and intern projects include leveraging privacy-enhancing technologies such as multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, federated analytics, and differential privacy to develop privacy-focused advertising solutions (private record-linkage, fraud prevention, experimentation platforms, and collaborative inference) — all while maintaining performance at massive scale.

  • Assess potential opportunities and execute world-class research associated with your area of scientific expertise
  • Design and prototype new algorithms, optimization methods, and system architectures to advance our long-term priorities
  • Establish approaches to rigorously assess validity and relative performance of new technologies or strategies
  • Build cross-functional collaborations with AI, Engineering, Product and Analytics teams to shape roadmaps with a balance of scientific rigor and strategic considerations
  • Learn new tools, systems, and programming languages quickly as required by the particular project you are working on
  • Apply communication skills to engage diverse audiences on technical topics and nuanced insights
  • Develop patent applications, white papers, and publications that are broadly appealing and accessible beyond a core scientific audience. Publish research results in top-tier journals and at leading conferences

Minimum Qualifications

  • Pursuing a PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, statistics, mathematics, or a related field
  • Proficiency designing and implementing analytical and/or algorithmic solutions, tailored to particular business needs and tested on large data sets
  • Proficiency in C-family (e.g., C++, Rust, Go), Python, or similar language
  • Experience communicating analysis and establishing confidence among audiences who do not share your disciplinary background or training
  • Expertise with at least one of the following: Secure Multi-Party Computation techniques, Differential Privacy, Federated Learning or Federated Analytics, Homomorphic Encryption, Trusted Execution Environments
  • Proven track record of innovation
  • Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
  • Must be currently enrolled in a full-time degree program and returning to the program after the completion of the internship/co-op

Preferred Qualifications

  • Expertise on one or more of the following core privacy/security concepts:
  • Design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms and protocols, and/or their application to data protection and privacy, authentication, payments, or digital advertising
  • Experience in privacy and data protection systems architecture and experience developing technical solutions to secure personal data across data infrastructures
  • Web security (SQL injection, XSS, side channel attacks)
  • Web services technologies (REST, SOAP, HTTP, JSON) and their application in relation to browser cookies and mobile device identifiers

Company Info.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook Inc.) is a large technology company that was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and several of his college roommates. The company is based in Menlo Park, California, and is primarily known for its flagship social media platform, Facebook. In addition to its consumer-facing products, Meta Platforms also offers a range of advertising and marketing services to businesses and organizations.

  • Industry
    Advertising,Consumer electronics,Social media Company,Artificial intelligence
  • No. of Employees
    76,000
  • Location
    1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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