Meta(Meta Platforms)岗位:Research Scientist Intern, Multimodal LLM and Speech-to-Speech Translation (PhD) Responsibilities
Conduct original research in multimodal large language models, speech foundation models, or speech-to-speech translation.
Develop models that jointly understand and reason over audio, speech, visual, and textual inputs, or generate natural speech across languages.
Investigate methods for model pretraining, multimodal alignment, instruction tuning, or streaming inference.
Design and execute experiments, establish baselines, and evaluate model quality, robustness, latency, and computational efficiency.
Collaborate with researchers and engineers across speech, audio, computer vision, and language modeling.
Communicate research ideas, progress, and results through presentations, technical reports, and research publications.
Minimum Qualifications
Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Computational Linguistics, or a related STEM field
3+ years of experience programming in Python or a similar language
3+ years of experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
2+ years of experience developing computational models in one or more of the following areas: speech processing, natural language processing, multimodal learning, or audio-visual learning
Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
Preferred Qualifications
Research experience in one or more of the following: Multimodal large language models, including audio-language or audio-visual-language understanding, alignment, and reasoning.
Speech-to-speech translation, simultaneous translation, multilingual speech modeling, or streaming speech generation.
Speech foundation models, neural audio codecs, speech tokenization, or expressive speech synthesis
Experience pretraining or fine-tuning large models using distributed training and large-scale datasets
Experience evaluating multimodal reasoning or speech translation, including translation accuracy, speech naturalness, speaker similarity, and streaming latency
Demonstrated research contributions through publications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICASSP, or Interspeech
Demonstrated software engineering experience through internships, research projects, or contributions to open-source repositories
Experience collaborating and communicating across disciplines
Intent to return to a degree program after completing the internship/co-op
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United States of America:$7,650/month to $12,667/month + benefits
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