Visiting Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Visiting Researcher role focused on fundamental and applied research in embodied AI and robotics, aiming to create intelligent embodied agents. The role involves inventing novel data-driven paradigms, developing algorithms using ML/DL, and building capabilities for next-generation AI, with a strong emphasis on open science and producing new research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform fundamental and applied research to push the scientific and technological frontiers of embodied artificial intelligence
  2. Invent/improve novel data-driven paradigms for robotics, leveraging a variety of modalities (images, video, text, audio, tactile, etc)
  3. Investigate paradigms that can deliver a spectrum of embodied behaviors - from simulated characters to real robots, and from short-horizon, low-level to long-horizon, high-level intelligence
  4. Develop algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies
  5. Build and benchmark new capabilities needed for the next generation of AI

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with robotics, motion planning, embodied AI, human-robot interaction, sim-to-real transfer, learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, dexterous manipulation, digital agents, vision language models, computer vision, egocentric perception, and/or LLMs
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow) and Python
  • Demonstrated research and software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub)
  • Experience building systems based on machine learning and/or deep learning methods
  • Experience in relevant robotics-related research areas, such as: robot learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, action-conditioned world models, task and motion planning, sim-to-real transfer, robotic control, manipulation, navigation, or generally embodied AI
  • Experience working and communicating cross-functionally in a team environment
  • Experience with manipulating and analyzing complex, large-scale, high-dimensionality data from varying sources
  • Experience with robotics frameworks like ROS, along with experience working with robot simulations and real-world hardware

Nice to have

  • Master’s or PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Language, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

What the JD emphasized

  • producing new, open science
  • embodied artificial intelligence
  • robotics
  • reinforcement learning
  • vision-language models
  • LLMs
  • robot learning
  • embodied AI

Other signals

  • fundamental and applied research
  • push the scientific and technological frontiers
  • embodied artificial intelligence
  • novel data-driven paradigms for robotics
  • simulated characters to real robots
  • long-horizon, high-level intelligence
  • next generation of AI
  • long-term research goals