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PhD Intern, AI Applied Scientist (2027)
Research internship on the AI team that tunes agentic systems for design quality, builds evaluators and post-trains models. Suits PhD students in machine learning, NLP or computer vision with published work on LLMs or agents, available winter or summer 2027 in San Francisco or New York.
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Where
United States
On-siteDuration
Not stated
Pay
USD 12.8k/month
Posted hourly base pay of $74, converted to a month at 40h/week x 4.33Starts
Not stated
Year-round cycleWho can apply
- Current students
What they ask for
Machine learningLLMsPythonPyTorchAgentic systemsModel evaluationResearch
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Last checked 10 days ago (6 Oct 2026)
About the company
Builds browser based tools for interface design, prototyping and whiteboarding, including Figma Design and FigJam.
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