Research Engineer Intern (Ethical Creative and Protective AI Lab)

What you'll do

• Build post-training and evaluation infrastructure; fine-tune models using supervised and reinforcement learning approaches.
• Define evaluation metrics and develop tools and frameworks to assess and mitigate generative AI risks.
• Contribute to research outcomes for conferences and journals.

What they ask for

• Completed or currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related scientific discipline.
• Experience with LLM/VLM tooling and frameworks, API integration, and prompt engineering.
• Familiarity with and interest in responsible AI development.
• Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with RL fine-tuning of LLMs and/or VLMs is strongly preferred.

Pay

$50.00 per hour (hourly rate)

Tools

SFT, RLAIF, RLVR, LLMs, VLMs

AI focus

Responsible multimodal generative AI research, including model fine-tuning, evaluation, and AI-risk assessment and mitigation.