Research Scientist Intern, AI and ML (PhD)

Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Job Description

We are part of the AI Innovation Center for Ads and Monetization org (Meta AI). We incubate and integrate state-of-the-art AI/ML advancements and best practices into the Ads and Monetization products, helping these products hit their long-term and company-critical goals. Partnering with the product and infrastructure teams, we have contributed over $30B cumulative value for the company in the past two years.

This team works on a wide variety of ML areas, e.g., ranking, recommendation, advanced modeling, reinforcement learning, data scaling and learning, content understanding, and ads supply (optimizing the trade-off between ads revenue and user engagement). Some of the specific topics we focus on include end-to-end joint modeling, retrieval, user modeling, AutoML, semi/self-supervised learning, graph learning, large-capacity modeling (e.g., Transformer), signal growth (e.g., recovering from signal loss due to opt-out users for privacy purposes), optimization, uplift modeling, causal reasoning, personalization, etc.

Our team at Meta AI offers twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) weeks long internships and we have various start dates throughout the year. To learn more about our research, visit https://research.facebook.com.

Research Scientist Intern, AI and ML (PhD) Responsibilities

  • Perform research to advance the science and technology of machine learning
  • Devise better data-driven models of human behavior
  • Contribute research that can be applied to Facebook product development

Minimum Qualifications

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Computer Vision or similar
  • Experience with Python, C++, Java or other related language
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch or Tensorflow
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Preferred Qualifications

  • Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches
  • Experience manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources
  • Strong interest in theoretical and empirical research and for answering hard questions with research
  • Experience building systems based on machine learning, reinforcement learning and/or deep learning methods
  • Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops or conferences such as ICML, NeurIPS, or ICLR
  • Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)
  • Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment
  • Intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship/co-op

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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