Research Scientist Intern, 3D Perception, Understanding and Generative AI (PhD)

This role is based in London, UK.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute cutting-edge research and development to advance the state-of-the-art in machine perception, state estimation, reconstruction and rendering of 3D objects and scenes.
• Collaborate with other researchers and engineers across machine perception teams at Meta to develop experiments, prototypes, and concepts that advance the state-of-the-art in AR/VR and AI systems.
• Work with the team to help design, setup, and run practical experiments and prototype systems related to large-scale high quality sensing and machine reasoning.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the domain of computer-vision, computer graphics, 3D machine perception or machine learning.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience working with 3D and projective geometry, in addition to image-space computer vision.
• Hands-on experience implementing 3D computer vision algorithms as well as end-to-end training of ML models from data collection and design to evaluation.
• Experience working within Python environments such as pytorch.
• Experience working in a Unix environment.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences.
• Strong programming experience using python and pytorch.
• Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories.
• Intent to return to a degree-program after the completion of the internship.
• Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment.