Meta
Research Scientist Intern, MSL Agents (PhD)
Menlo Park, CA · Internship · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, or a relevant technical field; currently holds or is pursuing the degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must obtain and maintain work authorization in the country of employment.
About the job
Conduct research and develop, evaluate, and deploy post-trained LLM systems and long-horizon agents for Meta products.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with researchers and cross-functional partners, and communicate research plans, progress, and results.
- Build training data, design and run product-relevant evaluations, and execute and analyze large-scale post-training runs.
- Advance agent capabilities and research training, evaluation, synthetic-data generation, and data-curation strategies.
What they ask for
- Currently has or is pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, or a relevant technical field.
- Experience with Python, C++, C, Java, or related programming languages, and with machine learning or deep learning systems.
- Intent to return to the degree program after the internship and work authorization in the employment country throughout employment.
- Demonstrated research results, such as grants, fellowships, patents, or first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences.
Nice to have
- Experience advancing AI techniques, including contributions to open-source computer vision libraries or frameworks.
- Experience with deep learning frameworks, ML experiments, large-scale data analysis, and quantitative research.
Pay
$7,650/month to $12,667/month (USD; base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, C, Java, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR
AI focus
Research and post-train LLMs for long-horizon agents, tool use, full-stack coding, search, planning, and personalization; develop training data, evaluations, and synthetic-data strategies.
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