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Research Intern - Coding Agents & Post-Training Optimization

United States, Washington, RedmondInternship2026-11-02 → 2026-11-10

Core

Research Intern conducting inquiry and theory into practice, contributing to research and development strides alongside doctoral candidates and researchers.

Role type

Research Intern (LLM Post-Training & Coding Agents)

Builds

Research findings and contributions to the community

Domain

Computer Science / AI / LLMs

Deliverable

research

Required skills

LLM post-training (RL, SFT, preference optimization), model compression, efficient inference, Python, PyTorch, transformer model training/fine-tuning, RL for LLMs at scale, code-generation models, coding agents, quantization, distillation, pruning, speculative decoding, distributed training, GPU profiling, CUDA, Triton

Preferred skills

First-author publications at top venues, experience with serving stacks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, ONNX Runtime), experience collaborating across teams and disciplines

Technologies

TRL, verl, OpenRLHF, DeepSpeed-Chat, SWE-bench, LiveCodeBench, Terminal-Bench, HumanEval, FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, ONNX Runtime, CUDA, Triton

Responsibilities

Collaborate with mentors and other researchers, present findings, contribute to the vibrant life of the community

Seniority

Intern