About the role#
Meta Reality Labs Research is looking for a PhD researcher who combines computer science AI development with social science and experimental design. You will work on Contextual AI, which uses data from wearable devices to deliver relevant and timely assistance. In this role, you will define how to measure the success of these systems and lead a research project from the initial question to final impact. You will build functional prototypes, design user studies, and turn your findings into guidance for engineering teams.
What you'll do#
- Plan and run a research project, including choosing methods, analyzing data, and communicating results to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Build functional prototypes of contextual AI experiences using wearable sensor data, personal timeline APIs, and modern AI tools.
- Design and run user studies that combine behavioral data, device logs, and self-report.
- Develop and validate measures for experience quality, trust, interruption cost, and correction burden.
- Design human evaluations of AI systems, including rating protocols and calibrating automated judges against human judgment.
- Collaborate with research scientists, engineers, designers, and product managers to turn findings into design guidance and technical requirements.
- Share results in internal readouts and peer-reviewed publications.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in a PhD program in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Information Science, or a related field.
- Research that combines computational and social or behavioral science methods.
- Experience developing AI systems, such as applications on LLMs or agents, or training and evaluating machine-learning models.
- Experience with Python, C++, or related programming languages.
- Experience building working interactive prototypes or research systems.
- Training in social science research methods, including experimental design, forming hypotheses, and planning sample size.
- Experience running studies with people, including controlled experiments and field, interview, or diary methods.
- Experience with behavioral and sensor-data collection protocols and analyzing results with appropriate statistics.
- Research experience in human-AI interaction, conversational agents, wearable computing, or AR/VR.
- Experience working and communicating cross-functionally in a team environment.
- Ability to obtain and maintain work authorization in the United States.
Location & details#
- This internship is located in Redmond, Washington.
- The role is on-site.
- This is a full-time, paid internship.
- Internships are 12 to 24 weeks long with rolling start dates.
About Meta
Meta develops software and social media applications. It operates platforms such as Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The company maintains headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Current work focuses on augmented and virtual reality alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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