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Research Intern - Self-Improving Agentic Systems and AI Research Agents

Research Intern - Self-Improving Agentic Systems and AI Research Agents

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We are seeking a highly motivated intern (Contract Worker) to join our research team working on self-improving agentic systems — a cutting-edge area at the intersection of reinforcement learning, LLM post-training, and autonomous AI research agents.

We develop agentic systems that improve their own performance over time, combining reinforcement learning and LLM post-training with agents capable of writing, evaluating, and optimizing code. A central goal is building AI research agents that can autonomously propose, run, and analyze experiments, accelerating the pace of AI research itself.

Research Intern - Self-Improving Agentic Systems and AI Research Agents Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, implementation, and evaluation of self-improving agentic systems and AI research agents.
• Contribute to research on reinforcement learning and LLM post-training methods, including reward design, preference optimization, and RL from execution feedback.
• Collaborate with senior researchers to explore new approaches for autonomous experimentation, code generation, and optimization.
• Help build and maintain evaluation harnesses and benchmarks for agentic capabilities.
• Help document findings and prepare research outputs for publication.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently is in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Information or Multimedia Retrieval, Reinforcement Learning, Mathematics or relevant technical field
• Experience with Python, C++, C, Java or other related language
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch or Tensorflow
• Experience building systems based on machine learning and/or deep learning methods

Preferred Qualifications

• Eagerness to learn about advanced AI concepts such as reinforcement learning, LLM post-training, agentic scaffolding, and self-improvement
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

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