Responsibilities
- Explore and develop technologies for AI infrastructure, including AI training and inference platforms and AI agent infrastructure.
- Build prototypes to verify the functionality and performance of key components or innovations.
- Showcase research findings and products through academic publications.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience with LLM training or inference, or physical AI infrastructure such as training, inference, simulation, reinforcement learning, or synthetic data.
- Ability to work independently and complete projects from beginning to end in a timely manner.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills for explaining technical concepts to teammates.
- Preferred: open-source contributions to PyTorch, vLLM, or SGLang.
- Preferred: publications at relevant computer science conferences such as OSDI or MLSys.
Benefits
- PhD internship providing hands-on learning, community-building, professional development events, and collaboration with industry experts.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and applicants should state their availability, including start and end dates, on their resume.
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