UX Research Scientist Intern, Multimodal Conversation Analyst (PhD)

Meta Reality Labs Research is seeking a scholar of language and social interaction, or interpersonal communication, to conduct applied empirical research in complex social and relational contexts. The ideal candidate will address contemporary communication challenges—such as facilitating difficult or high-stakes conversations, managing conflict, providing social support, mediation, or negotiating relationships—across personal, professional, and community settings, both online and offline. As part of our world-class team, you will help build meaningful representations of user state and social standing using data from egocentric machine perception, supporting the next generation of contextual AI wearables, VR, and AR devices. You will collect and analyze rich behavioral datasets to advance our understanding of human experience, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative social science methods. We welcome applicants whose research intersects with or complements areas such as interpersonal communication, language and social interaction, health communication, organizational communication, communication and technology, computational social science, media studies, or information science. Your research program should be empirical, theory-driven, and communication-centered. Our internships are twelve (12) to twenty four (24) weeks long and we have various start dates throughout the year. Some projects may require a minimum of 24 consecutive weeks.