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Research Scientist Intern, Neuroscience / AI (PhD)

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Research Scientist Intern, Neuroscience / AI (PhD)
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The mission of Meta FAIR's Brain and AI is to interface neuroscience and artificial intelligence, to both better understand how the brain functions in light of state-of-the-art AI models and to improve AI in light of neuroscientific principles. We explore, design, and build AI systems at scale to enable next-generation AI technologies. Our internships are twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) weeks long and we have various start dates throughout the year.
Research Scientist Intern, Neuroscience / AI (PhD) Responsibilities
  • Perform research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines.
  • Develop novel and accurate AI algorithms and systems to process neural data, leveraging Deep Learning and Machine Learning on big data resources.
  • Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various deployed systems.
  • Collaborate with researchers and cross-functional partners including communicating research plans, progress, and results.
  • Publish research results and contribute to research that can be applied to Meta product development.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, or relevant technical field.
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
  • Experience with Python.
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch.
  • Experience building systems based on machine learning, deep learning methods, or natural language processing.
  • Experience in high-performance computing.
  • Experience in collaborative coding (Github)
Preferred Qualifications
  • Intent to return to a PhD program after the completion of the internship/co-op.
  • Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, RecSys, KDD, IJCAI, CVPR, ECCV, ACL, NAACL, EACL, ICASSP, or similar.
  • Experience with ML areas such as NeuroAI, Speech, Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Reasoning & Retrieval.
  • Experience manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources.
  • Experience with training deep neural networks for processing neural signals and multivariate time series.
  • Experience with the development of enterprise level AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning platforms involving big data management and GPU compute.
  • Experience building systems based on machine learning, reinforcement learning and/or deep learning methods.
  • Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub).
  • Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment.
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