Research Scientist Intern - Spatial Reasoning & Localization

Meta; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 44,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Reality Labs is seeking a Research Scientist Intern to help advance state-of-the-art visual language models and localization methods for immersive experiences across Meta’s AR/VR platforms. You will work with researchers and engineers to develop models, representations, datasets, and evaluation methods.

You will have opportunities to contribute to publications and influence future products used worldwide as you collaborate on lightweight VLM-driven localization, semantic reasoning, and

Job description

Meta Reality Labs brings together researchers and engineers to invent the future of visual computing.

Our teams develop technologies that enable people to capture, create, understand, and interact with immersive visual experiences across Meta’s products and AR/VR platforms. We work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computer vision, multimodal language models, and maps.

Our research spans localization, vision-language models, scene text and landmark understanding, and spatial reasoning grounded in maps and floor plans, so that devices such as AI glasses can understand where people are, indoors and outdoors.

As a Research Scientist Intern, you will help advance the state of the art in a fast, lightweight VLM driven visual localizer that reasons over semantic and geometric evidence in images and structured map representations, estimating where the image was taken: the place, the floor, and the camera's position and heading.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to develop new models, representations, datasets, and evaluation methods—with opportunities to publish your work and influence future products used by people around the world.