Research Scientist Intern, Audio User Experience (PhD)

The Meta Reality Labs Research Team brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers, and engineers to create the future of virtual and augmented reality, which together will become as universal and essential as smartphones and personal computers are today. In particular, the Meta Reality Labs Research Audio team is focused on two goals: creating virtual sounds that are perceptually indistinguishable from reality, and redefining human hearing.

These two initiatives will allow us to connect people by letting them feel together despite being physically apart, and to converse in even the most difficult listening environments. We are seeking interns to help us understand, in depth and in context, how future users make sense of and live with these audio technologies — what they notice, what they struggle to describe, and what matters to them in their own words. This role requires a background in psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, sociology, communication, human-computer interaction, human factors, or a similar field.