Research Scientist Intern, PhD, PyTorch Edge

PyTorch is Meta’s deep learning framework for fast, flexible AI/ML experimentation used across industry and backing all of Meta’s ML workloads. More details at https://pytorch.org/

Our team brings PyTorch to edge devices through the use of compilers, an optimized runtime, and leveraging unique mobile hardware (CPU, GPU, NPU, DSP) for inference and training.

Team scope:
Develop ExecuTorch as the PyTorch solution for on-device AI
Partner with Reality Labs to run AI on AR/VR hardware
Partner with Meta family of apps for running AI on iOS and Android
Partner with hardware vendors on high-performance AI kernels
Provide on-device AI training, feature stores, benchmarking, and model delivery
Innovate across productivity, performance, and portability for on-device AI

Our team at Meta AI offers twelve (12) to sixteen (16) weeks long internships and we have various start dates throughout the year. To learn more about our research, visit https://ai.facebook.com.Research Scientist Intern, PhD, PyTorch Edge Responsibilities

• Develop new or apply existing performance techniques to on-device AI
• Explore quantization, sparsity, and model/software co-design as solutions
• Apply knowledge and research to advance the state-of-the-art in on-device machine learning frameworks
• Collaborate with users and developers of PyTorch and ExecuTorch to enable new use cases inside and outside Meta

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, PhD degree in the field of Computer Science or a related STEM field
• Experience in ML compilers, sparsity, quantization, kernel development, or similar as applied to on-device and highly-constrained environments
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on other AI/ML optimized runtime stacks
• Research or software engineer experience demonstrated via grants, fellowships, patents, internship, work experience, and/or coding competitions.
• Experience with performance optimization of machine learning models for on-device inference
• Submitted first-authored publications at peer-reviewed conferences (e.g. tinyML, NeurIPS, MLSys, ICML, or similar).
• Intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship/co-op

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$7,800/month to $11,293/month + benefits

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