Scale AI
Machine Learning Research Intern (Summer 2027)
$120K–$150K
New York, NY +2 · Internship · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Prior research experience or a publication track record is required; no years specified.
- Education
- Currently enrolled in a BS, MS, or PhD program focused on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or Natural Language Processing; graduation in Fall 2027 or Spring 2028.
About the job
Conduct machine learning research and build, improve, and deploy production models and systems, including work on frontier-model evaluation, training, reliability, and oversight.
What you'll do
- Research and develop methods, benchmarks, and evaluations for frontier models and high-stakes reasoning tasks.
- Improve production models through retraining and hyperparameter searches, then deploy updates without regressing core characteristics.
- Develop human-in-the-loop data, oversight, post-training, and agentic systems for enterprise and public-sector applications.
What they ask for
- Currently enrolled in a BS, MS, or PhD program focused on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or Natural Language Processing, graduating Fall 2027 or Spring 2028.
- Available for a Summer 2027 internship, with a May/June start, in San Francisco or New York.
- Prior research experience or publication track record in LLMs, NLP, multimodal models, agents, safety, evaluation, alignment, or a related field.
- Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages, including Python, Javascript, or similar.
Nice to have
- Previous internship in a related ML field, or research experience through an internship, full-time role, or lab.
- Top-tier publications or open-source contributions; hands-on experience with reinforcement learning, agentic systems, or evaluation infrastructure.
Pay
$120,000 — $150,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Javascript
AI focus
Research and develop frontier AI models and systems, including generative AI, reinforcement learning, post-training, scalable oversight, synthetic data, red teaming, evaluation, safety, alignment, and agentic solutions.
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