Research Scientist Intern, Optical Materials Development Job at Meta (Redmond)

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Research Scientist Intern, Organic Optoelectronic Materials

Meta Reality Labs brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers,...

Location

United States , Redmond

Salary:

7313.00 - 12134.00 USD / Month

Meta

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD degree in the field of Material Science, Organic Chemistry, Polymer Science, or a related field
3+ years experience with organic chemistry, organic optical/electric materials, or material/process design emphasizing materials synthesis and characterization
3+ years experience with experimental materials/process and conducting laboratory work (i.e., demonstrated ability to construct proof-of-concept systems and to evaluate performance)
Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Job Responsibility

Materials and process development of new organic optoelectronic applications
Synthesis and characterization of novel organic nonlinear optical materials
Device fabrication and characterization based on novel nonlinear optical materials

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Research Scientist Intern, Optical Engineering

Meta Reality Labs brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers,...

Location

Ireland , Cork

Salary:

Not provided

Meta

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Material Engineering, or relevant technical field
2+ years of hands-on experience in at least one of the following areas: Designing and executing optical experiments and metrology for display devices
Utilizing advanced optical measurement techniques such as Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photoluminescence (TRPL), Photoluminescence Excitation (PLE), Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF), or Cathodoluminescence (CL)
Conducting wafer-level and chip-level contact testing using manual or addressable probes and probe-cards
Designing and setting up open-space optical test and characterization tables for custom measurement and analysis
Familiarity with Python, Matlab or equivalent programming languages
Intent to return to the degree program after the completion of the internship/co-op
Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Job Responsibility

Collaborate with researchers and cross-functional partners including communicating research plans, progress, and results
Publish research results and contribute to research that can be applied to Meta product development
Drive innovation in AR/VR display development by creating and implementing new techniques for advanced test and characterization of emerging concepts
Collaborate closely with the Meta Reality Labs uLED team to explore and develop novel solutions for characterizing uLED devices
Lead the exploration and development of new techniques in one or more of the following areas: Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photoluminescence (TRPL) Photoluminescence Excitation (PLE) Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) Advanced optical testing methods
Focus on advanced optical characterization, developing and integrating new methodologies into the process of characterizing uLED devices

Program Manager, Physical Sciences

The Program Manager will be responsible for various activities in support of the...

Location

United States , Manhattan

Salary:

75000.00 USD / Year

The New York Academy of Sciences

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

PhD required in an appropriate subject area of Physical Sciences, including but not limited to: Astrophysics
Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics
Chemical Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical Engineering
Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Particle Physics
Physical Earth Sciences
Theoretical Physics

Job Responsibility

Work with the Senior Leadership to identify, select, and establish ongoing relationships with an international cadre of judges, Scientific Advisory Council members, nominators, nominating institutions, and affiliated partners.
Review nominations in broad disciplinary areas of physical sciences
evaluating each application according to rigorous quantitative and qualitative metrics.
Serve as primary point of contact for judges in your topic area and programs
facilitate nominee/applicant evaluation and honoree selection by juries of expert scientists, conducted both online and in-person.
Coordinate the preparation of multimedia materials for broad audiences that explain the impact of the honorees’ complex scientific research.
Conceptualize and develop scientific programming for international and domestic symposia that showcase honoree research for scientific and lay audiences.
Work with the Academy’s Senior Leadership team as well as various administrative and operations departments, affiliated partners, and other vendors as needed to develop and execute domestic and international award ceremonies and other program events.
Collaborate across Academy departments to identify potential opportunities for ongoing honoree engagement in additional Academy initiatives and publications.
As needed, work with the Senior Vice President, Life Sciences to conceptualize, organize, secure financial support for, and convene scientific conferences and programming in various areas of physical sciences and engineering.

What we offer

affordable health insurance
retirement plan with matching employer contribution
personal & career development stipend
liberal paid time off policies

Fulltime

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Research Scientist Intern, Computational Chemist

Meta Reality Labs brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers,...

Location

United States , Redmond

Salary:

7313.00 - 12134.00 USD / Month

Meta

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, or relevant technical fields
Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
3+ years of experience in at least one of the following areas of research: first-principle simulations especially DFT, DFPT, GW-BSE, CCSD, for atomistic systems at scale
3+ years of experience studying atomistic systems with machine learning
3+ years of experience with programming languages such as Python, C++
Intent to return to the degree program after the completion of the internship/co-op

Job Responsibility

Collaborate with the larger Meta Reality Labs Research team to explore novel solution space for AR/VR devices
Collaborate with the larger Fundamental AI Research team to train and utilize AI models for materials discovery and candidate material identification
Explore & propose various approaches of first-principle simulations to understand the optical, electronic or mechanical properties of crystalline systems with complex interactions and external perturbations
Conduct independent research and explore the broader application space given simulation results
Contribute to and utilize internal/external tools to perform large-scale simulations
collect & analyze results to guide further iterations to refine simulation pipelines
Publish research results internally and contribute to solving other challenges that can be applied to Meta product development

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Research Scientist Intern, Dexterous Manipulation Sensing

Meta Reality Labs is dedicated to exploring and developing novel technologies fo...

Location

United States , Redmond

Salary:

7313.00 - 12134.00 USD / Month

Meta

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Optical Science, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
Experience in one or more types of tactile sensors such as optical, resistive, capacitive, or piezoelectric
Experience in system-level design and prototyping of tactile sensing solutions
Proven analytical and computational skills
Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

Job Responsibility

Propose novel tactile sensing system architectures to achieve high performance and high durability for Robotics
Develop tactile sensing systems and build prototypes
Characterize the tactile sensing system and experiment with practical use cases
Collaboration with and support of other researchers across various disciplines
Communication of research agenda, progress and results

Technical Systems Engineer - SME

The Sponsor is looking for a highly skilled Systems Engineer with proficiency co...

Location

United States , McLean

Salary:

Not provided

Arcfield

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
BS 12-15 years of experience, MS 10-13 years of experience, or PhD 10+ years of experience (preferred electrical engineering or other engineering degree)
Minimum of 10 years of experience with Sponsor or other related IC organization
At least 5 years of experience in engineering and/or a specialty field
Thorough understanding of systems engineering and in at least two of the various technical areas below: Radio-frequency and optical
Technical surveillance
In-building power systems
TEMPEST
Acoustic signals
Excellent engineering and design aptitude with a strong attention to detail is required

Job Responsibility

Identify and maintain awareness of sources of technical data to support intelligence analysis, obtain and maintain access to such data, and develop and perform queries against those sources
Provide initial risk/insider threat analysis using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, develop analytic judgments such as relevance or vulnerabilities, and prepare briefings/reports documenting the methodology used and the results obtained
Discover and forecast new technologies and products advancing mission capabilities
Scout and perform marketing analysis assessing the potential of new products, and support technology transfer and adoption
Develop and execute advanced security strategies and solutions, ensuring the organization's systems and data are protected against evolving threats
Recommend system enhancements to improve security deficiencies through the development, testing, and integration of network security threats
Implement network security measures including access controls, intrusion detection/prevention, and encryption
Provide independent CI assessment of projects regarding technical risk including risk definition, assessment, prioritization, and mitigation
Review technical challenges, propose recommended courses of action and document results
Provide technical expertise and a detailed understanding of current systems and potential system improvements

Fulltime

New

AI Research Scientist (Technical Leadership), Data Research - MSL FAIR

Meta is seeking research scientists to help us build the data foundation for Met...

Location

United States , Menlo Park

Salary:

219000.00 - 301000.00 USD / Year

Meta

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
4+ years of industry research experience in NLP or CV
4+ years as a formal technical lead experience
Experience leading major technical initiatives with cross-functional impact and influencing strategy across multiple teams
Practical experience with multimodal pre-training or mid-training data curation for large language models, media perception, or media generation models
Published research in leading peer-reviewed conferences (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, CVPR, ICCV) and/or demonstrated significant industry influence in the field of AI

Job Responsibility

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop Meta’s next foundational models
Advance our understanding of data research, such as how to overcome data walls and how best to create synthetic data
Architect efficient and scalable data curation systems and pipelines
Fundamentally improve our data velocity across workflows and projects by contributing to the advancement of data tooling
Execute on high priority projects in pre-training, mid-training, or post-training data curation
Apply specialized expertise in video/image generation, video/image perception, OCR, agentic data, synthetic data, reasoning data, web parser, coding data, data scaling laws, or datamix optimization
Lead complex technical projects end-to-end

What we offer

bonus
equity
benefits

New

Research Engineer, Media Data Research - MSL FAIR

Meta is seeking AI research engineers to help us build the data foundation for M...

Location

United States , Menlo Park

Salary:

257000.00 USD / Year ▼

Meta

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
2+ years of industry research experience in LLM/NLP, computer vision, or related AI/ML models
Experience as a formal technical lead, leading major technical initiatives with cross-functional impact, and/or influencing strategy across multiple teams
Practical experience with multimodal pre-training or mid-training data curation for large media perception or generation models
Demonstrated data infrastructure and software background, and experience building data tooling and services
Published research in leading peer-reviewed conferences (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, CVPR, ICCV) and/or demonstrated significant industry influence in the field of AI

Job Responsibility

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop Meta’s next foundational models
Architect efficient and scalable data curation systems and pipelines
Fundamentally improve our data velocity across workflows and projects by contributing to the advancement of data tooling
Execute on high priority projects in pre-training, mid-training, or post-training data curation
Apply specialized expertise in video/image generation, video/image perception, OCR, data scaling laws, or data mixing
Lead complex technical projects end-to-end

What we offer

bonus
equity
benefits

Research Scientist Intern, Optical Materials Development

Meta

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
Research and Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

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Job Posted:
January 23, 2026

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