# Research Scientist Intern, Foundation Model Optimization (PhD)

Meta's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together, and the Meta Reality Labs organization focuses on delivering this vision through AR/VR/SG devices.Meta's Efficiency and On-Device AI team within the Reality Labs organization is seeking a Research Scientist Intern with a focus on language/vision model optimization. As a Research Scientist Intern, your primary objective is to develop cutting-edge efficient LLMs and vision foundation models. Responsibilities Perform LLM and vision foundation model research that leads to publications in top-tier CV/NLP/ML conferences. Develop model optimization algorithms and infrastructure to enable deployment of models in resource-constrained settings, such as mobile phones and AR/VR/MR/SG devices. Research joint optimization of models and the surrounding assistant system, including planning, memory, tool use, and coordination across device and cloud. Explore personalization, model compression and efficiency, and novel model architectures including omni-modal capabilities. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary research and engineering teams. Qualifications Currently is in the process of obtaining a PhD i

- **Id**: 3787737
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/meta-research-scientist-intern-foundation-model-optimization-phd-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bellevue, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T23:55:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T01:30:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2150
- **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**: 241
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.909
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 38
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Edge AI** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T04:23:09Z

## 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**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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