Research Scientist Intern, MSL Infra Kernels & Optimizations (PhD)

The Research Scientist Intern, MSL Infra Kernels & Optimizations team at Meta is seeking PhD Research Scientists interns to join their Research & Development teams in 2026. The team explores, develops, and helps productionize high-performance model, software, and hardware technologies for Meta's mission to build superintelligence. Responsibilities include exploring and optimizing highly optimized ML kernels, designing and optimizing parallelisms and algorithms, and innovating novel model architectures.

Requirements

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in the field of Computer Science, Computer Vision, Generative AI, NLP, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Specialized experience in one or more of the following areas: Accelerators/GPU architectures, High Performance Computing (HPC), Machine Learning Compilers, Training/Inference ML Systems, Model Compression, Communication Collectives, ML Kernels/Operator optimizations, Machine learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch) and SW/HW co-design
• Experience developing AI-System infrastructure or AI algorithms in C/C++ or Python

Benefits

• Paid internship