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Research Scientist Intern (Data-TnS-Algo-Foundations & Intelligence Service) - 2027 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California · Internship · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
About the job
Conduct research and develop methods to improve LLM and VLM capabilities, evaluation, safety alignment, and robustness in agentic settings.
What you'll do
- Explore pretraining and continued-pretraining approaches that improve model capabilities and safety.
- Build evaluation systems for emerging model skills and safety behaviors; develop post-training and reinforcement-learning strategies.
- Investigate failure modes in agents, workflows, and tool use, and develop mitigations.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Research experience in at least one of LLMs, AI Safety, Computer Vision, or Multimodality.
- Familiarity with current AI-safety papers, benchmarks, and terminology.
- Proficiency with at least one deep learning framework, such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Nice to have
- Publications in top AI or Security venues.
Tools
LLMs, VLMs, PyTorch, TensorFlow, RLHF, RLAIF, DPO
AI focus
Research on foundation models, including pretraining, evaluation, reinforcement-learning post-training, safety alignment, and robust agentic systems.
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