Meta posts high‑pay research internships
Meta is advertising specialized US research scientist internships that pay up to $12,000/month — roles are niche and research‑oriented rather than broad SWE internships. The openings underscore increased demand for demonstrable research and domain expertise in competitive internship slots. (biotecnika.com)
Openings named on public listings include "Applied Perception Science", "Adaptive Experimentation", and "AI Core Machine Learning" as distinct Research Scientist Intern roles at Meta. (biotecnika.com) Multiple Meta research-intern postings explicitly target PhD candidates or PhD holders and list advanced research experience as a hiring requirement. (metacareers.com) Compensation benchmarks from public salary trackers show research-intern hourly entries around $65.08/hr (≈ $11,281/month) in Levels.fyi sample data for Meta research internships. (levels.fyi) Aggregate pay and averages reported on Glassdoor and Indeed list Meta research-intern annual averages near $75,834 and monthly averages around $10,437, respectively, across submitted salary reports. (glassdoor.com) Listings and team descriptions specify technical research responsibilities such as Bayesian optimization, active learning, sample-efficient black‑box optimization for Adaptive Experimentation, and human visual perception plus AR computational modeling for Applied Perception Science. (peerlist.io) Public job posts and reporting note that the roles often include product-facing research deliverables, expectations to translate findings into product guidance, and are described as highly selective intern positions in Meta's research orgs. (indeed.com)
