CareerPlan

Spring/Summer 2027 PhD Large Language Model Engineer Co-op

San Jose, CaliforniaFull-time2026-10-05 → 2026-10-22
On-site · United StatesNo visa sponsorship

Core

Conduct research on scalable training and inference of large language models, focusing on ML systems and HPC techniques.

Role type

PhD Research Intern (LLM Systems & HPC)

Builds

Distributed training frameworks, model parallelism strategies, and efficient resource management for large-scale AI workloads.

Domain

AI Infrastructure / High-Performance Computing

Deliverable

research

Required skills

Machine learning, distributed systems, parallel computing, deep learning frameworks, Python, C++, performance profiling, GPU/ASIC knowledge, HPC techniques, AI compiler optimizations

Preferred skills

Experience with large-scale LLM training, AI acceleration, top-tier conference publications

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Triton, XLA, MLIR, MPI, CUDA, NCCL, FSDP, ZeRO, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize distributed training frameworks; Explore hardware-aware optimizations (algorithm-hardware co-optimization, quantization); Implement and benchmark ML system optimizations; Collaborate to publish findings in top-tier conferences.

Seniority

PhD Student, Research Intern