Research Scientist Intern, AI NLP (PhD)

Meta is seeking Research Interns to join our Natural Language Processing teams in London offices. These teams are part of the MRS AI for Product organization within Facebook, working to advance the state of the art in natural language understanding and generation, and deploys these systems at scale to enable people to understand and communicate with anyone, surface the most relevant content to users, and to provide an enjoyable & safe experience—no matter what language they speak.Our research spans multiple areas across NLP including but not limited to natural language understanding, generation and retrieval, both in a mono- and crosslingual setting.

Research Scientist Intern, AI NLP (PhD) Responsibilities

• Perform research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines.

• Develop novel and accurate NLP algorithms and systems, leveraging deep learning, information retrieval technologies and machine learning on big data resources.

• Contribute research that can be applied to Meta product development.

• Analyse and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various deployed systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree.

• Experience in Python or C++ or other related programming languages.

• Research and/or work experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or Natural Language Processing.

• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the following Machine learning areas: Natural language processing and information retrieval

• Proven track record of achieving results as demonstrated by first-authored publications at workshops or conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR or similar.

• Experience with training, finetuning and evaluating deep neural networks for NLP tasks

• Experience communicating complex research in a clear, precise and actionable manner

• Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources.

• Intent to return to their degree-program after the completion of the internship/co-op.

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About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.

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