Nubank
Nu AI Core Summer PhD Research Internship
Palo Alto +2 · Remote · Internship · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto
Virginia
Miami - Education
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program; fields may include Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Mathematics, Computational Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, or related quantitative disciplines.
About the job
Conduct an end-to-end AI research or applied AI project, combining research experiments with development and evaluation in large-scale production environments.
What you'll do
- Lead a scoped AI research or applied AI project from start to finish.
- Design models and experiments, then evaluate them at scale.
- Collaborate with engineers, applied scientists, and researchers and present final research to leadership and AI teams.
What they ask for
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program.
- Research focus in machine learning, AI, statistics, or a related area.
- Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages; experience with machine learning frameworks.
- Experience designing experiments and evaluating models, and working with large datasets or training ML models.
Nice to have
- Publications at top AI/ML conferences or equivalent conferences in related fields.
- Experience with large-scale ML systems or distributed training, LLMs/generative AI/foundation models, open-source AI/ML contributions, or interdisciplinary research.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow
AI focus
Research and applied AI across machine learning and deep learning, LLMs and generative AI, recommender systems and ranking, AI infrastructure and model optimization, and responsible AI and model evaluation.
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