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Research Scientist Intern, Egocentric Vision-Language Models (PhD)
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Redmond, WA - Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Vision, Natural Language, Reinforcement Learning, or a related field; currently held or in progress.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment by the time of hire and maintain it during employment.
About the job
Conduct research and build prototype systems for egocentric AI, multimodal understanding, and long-term reasoning, and publish and present research findings.
What you'll do
- Plan and execute research advancing egocentric AI, multimodal understanding, and long-term reasoning.
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to design, develop, and run experiments and prototype systems.
- Publish findings at top-tier conferences and present research outcomes to internal and external audiences.
What they ask for
- Currently has or is pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision, Natural Language, Reinforcement Learning, or a related field.
- Knowledge of deep learning, computer vision, generative modeling, LLMs, and VLMs; hands-on experience implementing deep learning algorithms, large-scale training, benchmarking, and evaluation.
- Programming experience in Python and deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch.
- Must obtain and maintain work authorization in the country of employment; intent to return to a degree program after the internship.
Nice to have
- Experience building systems using machine learning, reinforcement learning, and/or deep learning methods.
- Demonstrated SWE or research experience through an internship, work experience, coding competitions, open-source contributions, or top-tier publications.
Pay
$7,650/month to $12,667/month (compensation type not specified)
Tools
Python, Pytorch, LLMs, VLMs
AI focus
Research and development of egocentric AI, multimodal understanding and reasoning, adaptive and context-aware models, temporal pattern mining, and long-term reasoning.
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