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Meta

Builds social apps, AI assistants and smart glasses

Research Scientist Intern - Applied Vision in Augmented Reality, PhD

AI ResearchPosted on Mar 18
Internship · Summer 2026Redmond, WA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Responsibilities

  • Design and conduct psychophysical experiments.
  • Develop new metrics of visual perception in augmented reality.
  • Build a new research stream quantifying visual performance in AR hardware.
  • Inform display technologies in next-generation AR devices by contributing to the design and optimization of AR display architectures.
  • Work alongside a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers to advance research in vision science for AR applications.
  • Help ensure that Meta's products deliver industry-leading visual experiences.
  • Internship length is twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) weeks with various start dates throughout the year.

About the Company

Meta

Builds social apps, AI assistants and smart glasses

Meta builds Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads, apps that billions of people use to message friends, share photos and video, and follow creators and businesses. Most of its revenue comes from advertising: businesses buy placements across these apps, and Meta's AI systems decide who sees each ad and report the results. Its Meta Superintelligence Labs group builds the company's own AI models, the Meta AI assistant and the Muse agent app. Its Reality Labs unit makes Quest headsets and, with eyewear maker EssilorLuxottica, Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. Meta was founded as Facebook in 2004 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Menlo Park, CA
Founded
2004

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