Meta
Research Scientist Intern, Youth Safety (PhD)
Bellevue, WA · Internship · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Education
- PhD intern; the posting specifies intent to return to a degree program but does not state a separate education requirement.
About the job
Conduct applied machine-learning research and develop models and evaluation systems that support age-appropriate, safe content experiences for young people on Facebook.
What you'll do
- Develop content- and age-understanding, retrieval, ranking, personalization, and proactive enforcement models for youth safety.
- Build training and evaluation methods using human judgments, LLM judges, and online experiments; assess production efficiency, scalability, latency, and stability.
- Collaborate across teams, communicate research findings, and contribute publishable research applicable to Meta products.
What they ask for
- Intent to return to a degree program after the internship or co-op.
- Research achievements demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, or publications at leading AI conferences or similar.
- Research or project experience in at least one listed area, such as trust and safety, content understanding, personalization, LLM-based evaluation, or multimodal understanding.
- Demonstrated software development experience and ability to communicate cross-functionally and drive research iterations.
Pay
$7,650/month to $12,667/month (base salary)
Tools
ML, LLM judges, large language models
AI focus
Research and build youth-safety models, including content and age understanding, age-appropriate ranking and personalization, proactive enforcement, and LLM-based evaluation.
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