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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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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)