# Hardware Systems Architecture Intern, Performance & Workload Analysis

Reality Labs' Systems Engineering team shapes the hardware architecture of future devices, from VR/MR headsets to AI wearables. As an intern on the team, you'll help turn user experiences and workloads into quantitative hardware requirements across compute, memory, storage, power, and thermal, and contribute to the trade studies that drive silicon and platform decisions. You'll be paired with a mentor and own a scoped project that lands in a real platform definition.This is a 12 week internship. Responsibilities Translate target use cases into hardware requirements - budgeting compute, memory bandwidth, storage throughput, power, and thermal for experiences such as mixed-reality passthrough, always-on AI assistant, and camera capture Contribute to architecture trade studies comparing SoC, memory, storage, and ISP options against performance, power, thermal, cost, and form-factor limits, using analytical models (e.g. roofline, bandwidth and power budgets) validated against measurements Measure platform behavior under load at the system level using power-rail instrumentation, thermal chambers, and hardware performance counters, and use the data to calibrate models Identify where per

- **Id**: 3776773
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/meta-hardware-systems-architecture-intern-performance-workload-analysis>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T19:30:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T00:39:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2754
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Digital Media, Foundation Models

## Company

- **Id**: 20
- **Name**: Meta
- **Domain**: meta.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/meta>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career sitemap

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 243
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.909
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 38
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Edge AI** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T23:28:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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