Full Time
Applied Research Intern
NextToken
Internship
Software Development
San Francisco County, CA
$85,000 - $120,000* / year
(about $41–$58 an hour)
Job Description
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ResearchMountain View / San Francisco
Sit at the edge of research and production. You'll take a real workflow from a real team, make its failure modes measurable, construct the reward system, and post-train models that beat the frontier baseline on the work that matters. We hire interns who want to be researchers who ship.
What you'll own
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ResearchMountain View / San Francisco
- Internship
Sit at the edge of research and production. You'll take a real workflow from a real team, make its failure modes measurable, construct the reward system, and post-train models that beat the frontier baseline on the work that matters. We hire interns who want to be researchers who ship.
What you'll own
- Evaluation suites built from production traces: deciding what to measure, building the graders, and proving they track real quality.
- Verifiers and reward models. Turning human corrections, outcomes, and standards of good work into training signal.
- Post-training experiments end-to-end: hypothesis, data, SFT/DPO/RL runs, ablations, analysis, and the write-up that defends the win with numbers.
- RL environments and agentic harnesses for the workflows we're specializing models for.
- Reproducing recent post-training, reasoning, and agent papers, and translating the ones that work into our stack.
- Currently a student (BS / MS / PhD) in CS, ML, or an adjacent field, or recently graduated.
- Strong empirical ML background. You've run post-training or RL experiments on LLMs and can explain what worked, what didn't, and why.
- Rigorous about evaluation. You can spot a benchmark that lies and design one that doesn't.
- Comfortable in messy production data. Real traces, not curated datasets, are your raw material.
- Bias to ship. Your experiments end in a deployed model or a killed hypothesis, not just a doc.
- Available for at least 12 weeks at meaningful intensity.
- Publications or OSS in post-training, RL, evals, or agents.
- Experience with verifier models, synthetic data, or RL environments at scale.
- Shipped research into a production system before.
- Strong taste for what the field is over- vs. under-investing in.
We read every application. Expect a reply within a week.
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