Research Scientist Intern – Robotics, World Models & Embodied AI (PhD)

Job description

Meta Reality Labs Research (RL Research) brings together a world-class R&D team of researchers and engineers with the shared goal of developing AI, Robotics, and AR/VR technology across the spectrum. The Surreal Spatial AI group is seeking Research Scientist Interns to help build the machine perception, 3D generative systems, and control technology that allow robotic agents and AI systems to perceive, understand, reason about, and interact with the world around them. Our research puts multi-modal generative world models at the core of machine perception and robotic control, using data from egocentric devices such as Project Aria alongside data from physical robots. As an intern, you will work with our research scientists and engineers on robot foundation models, including world action models (WAMs) and vision-language-action models (VLAs). Projects can span several research streams, including exploring novel architectures, grounding these models in 3D, learning action and goal representations, and integrating new sensor modalities such as touch. Interns in this role are proficient in research areas such as action-conditioned world models, 3D computer vision, representation learning, learning from human video and demonstrations, cross-embodiment transfer, tactile sensing, reinforcement learning, and dexterous manipulation. You should have a keen interest in producing new, open science that makes embodied agents more intelligent. Our internships are twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) weeks long and we have various start dates throughout the year.