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LLM Post-training Engineer Intern (Research & Product) - 2027 Summer
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing an Undergraduate or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Supports research and product deployment of LLM post-training methods for multimedia use cases, including alignment, evaluation, and model improvement.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize instruction- and preference-tuning strategies and model alignment.
- Build evaluation pipelines and research reward modeling and human preference learning.
- Analyze large-scale datasets and collaborate on production AI applications such as video understanding, translation, and content classification.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong Python programming skills and experience with PyTorch or JAX.
- Foundational understanding of Transformer architectures and LLM training principles.
- Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment and strong interest in applying AI to products.
Nice to have
- Experience or research projects involving LLM fine-tuning, RLHF, or synthetic data generation; familiarity with DeepSpeed or Megatron-LM.
- Experience or interest in multimodal AI, or a record of building and deploying AI projects.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM
AI focus
LLM post-training, instruction and preference tuning (SFT/DPO/PPO), model alignment, evaluation, reward modeling, human preference learning, and multimedia AI applications.
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