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Research Scientist, Physical Modeling Intern (PhD)

Meta
Menlo Park, CA Internship 12/2/2025 $7,650 - $12,134 a month
PhD Internship

Job Description

Meta is seeking a Research Scientist Intern to join the Physical Modeling team, focusing on optimizing data center design and operations, particularly in cooling and climate modeling.

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled in a full-time PhD program in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Applied Math, Systems Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or similar.
  • Fundamental knowledge in physical systems, signal processing, numerical computational algorithms, and data science or machine learning.
  • Comfortable manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from noisy sources.
  • Software development skills in Python for research applications.
  • Experience in problem solving and communicating complex quantitative analysis clearly.
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Electrical & Mechanical Engineering modeling tools for data center design.
  • Work closely with engineering teams and research scientists to solve physical modeling problems.
  • Implement scalable algorithms for Data Center digital models.
  • Identify and prototype algorithms and interpret prototype experiment results.
  • Apply expert coding skills to implement computation in partnership with other engineers and teams.