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PhD Research Intern - Winter/Summer 2026

Fundamental Research Labs

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Sep 24, 2025
Menlo Park, CA, US
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The company is looking to innovate cutting-edge research in AI, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent systems to open up new consumer product forms and build infrastructure that facilitates research and product.

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science (AI/ML, NLP, Robotics, etc.), or computational fields in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, etc.
  • Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and evaluate experiments
  • Strong publication record or evidence of impactful research contributions
  • Publications at top conferences (ICML, ICLR, Neurips, UAI, RSS, CoRL, JMLR, TMLR etc)
  • Experience with large-scale distributed training or inference engines (e.g., DeepSpeed, vLLM, FSDP)
  • Contributions to open-source projects in AI/ML or systems research

Responsibilities

  • explore new research directions in AI, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent systems
  • design, implement, and evaluate experiments
  • publish your work with us in conferences/journals
  • large-scale distributed training or inference engines (e.g., DeepSpeed, vLLM, FSDP)
  • Contributions to open-source projects in AI/ML or systems research

Other

  • Currently pursuing a PhD
  • Startup-oriented mindset: excited by ambiguity, rapid iteration, and big ideas
  • Cross-disciplinary interests (e.g., neuroscience, human-computer interaction, generative media)
  • Minimum 40 hours a week, onsite in Menlo Park (start and end date flexible)
  • Startup hours apply