# Research Scientist Intern - Foundation Model Optimization - PhD at Meta

- Company: [Meta](https://meta.com)
- Location: Bellevue, WA
- Type: Internship · Internship
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/2111078129773109
- Page: https://newgrad.ai/jobs/research-scientist-intern-foundation-model-optimization-phd-3908d24b

## Summary by newgrad.ai

What you'll do:

- Create efficient large language and vision foundation models.
- Optimize machine learning architectures for on-device performance.

What they're looking for:

- Current PhD students specializing in model optimization.
- Experience with language or vision foundation models.

## Posting

Meta's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together, and the Meta Reality Labs organization focuses on delivering this vision through AR/VR/SG devices.

Meta's Efficiency and On-Device AI team within the Reality Labs organization is seeking a Research Scientist Intern with a focus on language/vision model optimization. As a Research Scientist Intern, your primary objective is to develop cutting-edge efficient LLMs and vision foundation models.

From Meta's public posting, laid out for reading by newgrad.ai with the wording unchanged. Check the original before you apply.

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