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PhD GenAI Research Scientist Intern

PhD intern researches and develops techniques to adapt LLMs and AI systems for enterprise domains, including method design, evaluation, and efficient post-training. Requires deep learning proficiency, PyTorch skills, and ongoing PhD studies.

54 – 60/hr
On-siteAI Research

About the role

Job Summary

Research intern focused on advancing domain adaptation for LLMs and AI systems in enterprise contexts, tackling challenges like scaling evaluations, synthetic data fine-tuning, retrieval augmentation, and efficient inference.

Responsibilities

  • Adapt, improve, and evaluate methods from literature for domain adaptation.
  • Design new methods for domain adaptation.
  • Compose multiple methods into efficient post-training recipes.
  • Evaluate LLMs and AI systems.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Research experience and proficiency in deep learning fundamentals.
  • Pursuing PhD in computer science or related fields (e.g., electrical engineering, neuroscience, physics, math).
  • Proficient software engineering skills, including PyTorch.

Skills

PyTorchDeep LearningLLMsDomain AdaptationSynthetic DataRetrieval AugmentationAi Evaluation

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