PhD Intern: Spatial Reasoning & Localization Scientist

Meta; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

Meta Reality Labs is seeking a Research Scientist Intern in Redmond, WA to advance visual localization and spatial reasoning using structured map representations. You will work with researchers and engineers to build models, representations, datasets, and evaluation methods, with opportunities to publish and influence future AR/VR products.

The role focuses on developing lightweight VLM-driven visual localizers that reason over semantic and geometric evidence to estimate where an image was taken

Qualifications

• Pursuing PhD in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Vision, Multimodal ML)
• Strong foundation in computer vision and ML concepts
• Ability to prototype and evaluate models quickly

Responsibilities

• Research, develop and prototype advanced technologies in Computer Vision, Multimodal ML, and Visual Localization
• Create compact vision-language models to extract spatial evidence from images
• Localize images against structured map representations of indoor and outdoor environments

Education

PhD in Computer Vision, ML, or related field

Job description

Meta Reality Labs is seeking a Research Scientist Intern in Redmond, WA to advance visual localization and spatial reasoning using structured map representations. You will work with researchers and engineers to build models, representations, datasets, and evaluation methods, with opportunities to publish and influence future AR/VR products.

The role focuses on developing lightweight VLM-driven visual localizers that reason over semantic and geometric evidence to estimate where an image was taken