Research Scientist Intern, Humanoid Control & Dexterous Manipulation (PhD)

About the role

**Summary:**

Meta Reality Labs Research is a team of researchers and engineers pushing the frontier of AI, robotics, and AR/VR technology. Within RL Research, our team is building the next generation of full body loco-manipulation and dexterous hands control policies. We are seeking a Research Scientist Intern to help take novel ideas all the way from inception to real hardware.Interns in this role may work across the full robotics stack: data collection and processing, algorithm development and model training, and eventually running the algorithm on real robots. It involves working with research scientists and engineers together as a team, fast prototyping and rapid iterations of ideas, and debugging algorithms on real hardware.Our internships are twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) weeks long and we have various start dates throughout the year.

**Required Skills:**

Research Scientist Intern, Humanoid Control & Dexterous Manipulation (PhD) Responsibilities:

1. Independently design, develop, and analyze novel research ideas related to robotic simulation and control, with a focus on loco-manipulation and dexterous manipulation.

2. Deploy, test, and debug algorithms on real robots for sim-to-real transfer.

3. Collaborate with other researchers and engineers across multiple disciplines.

4. Communication of research agenda, progress and results to a diverse audience regularly.

5. Publish research results at top conferences and release code that contributes to the field of robotics.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

Minimum Qualifications:

6. Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in robotics, computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, or a related STEM field

7. Experience with physics-based character animation, reinforcement learning and imitation learning, human motion synthesis and retargeting, forward and inverse kinematics and dynamics, numerical optimization

8. Interpersonal experience: cross-group and cross-culture collaboration

9. 1+ years of experience with any of Python/pytorch or C/C++, and developing interactive graphics applications

10. Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment

**Preferred Qualifications:**

Preferred Qualifications:

11. Intent to return to degree program after the completion of the internship/co-op

12. 2+ years experience with physical-base character animation and simulation and imitation learning

13. Proven track record of achieving results as demonstrated in accepted papers at top conference and journal venues such as RSS, ICRA, IROS, CoRL, SIGGRAPH/Asia/TOG, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML etc

14. Experience in contributing to open-source projects

15. Experience in sim-to-real transfer and deploying simulated policies onto real robot hardware

16. Experience with perception algorithms such as SLAM and pose estimation

17. Experience working with tactile sensors

**Public Compensation:**

$7,650/month to $12,667/month + benefits

**Industry:** Internet

**Equal Opportunity:**

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@meta.com.

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