Member of Technical Staff - Research Intern
Architect Labs· Machine Learning
Palo AltoFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Research intern role focusing on co-designing RL experiments and advancing AI-driven hardware design at Architect Labs. Three-month on-site internship in Palo Alto, collaborating with founding team to push modeling roadmap and translate research into prototypes.
Responsibilities
- Co-designing and implementing the Reinforcement Learning experiments (GRPO/PPO/DPO), training data mixes and reward signal explorations.
- Contribute to research on post-training techniques, running ablation studies to improve model reasoning and alignment capabilities.
- Implement and test new algorithms for model fine-tuning and evaluation, translating research papers into working prototypes.
- Analyze experimental results and debug model behavior to establish best practices for training recipes.
Qualifications
- Education: Currently pursuing a PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or related field. Exceptional undergraduates with strong research experience are also encouraged to apply.
- RL Knowledge: Strong academic understanding or project experience with Reinforcement Learning (e.g., PPO, DPO, GRPO) and ability to read/implement recent research papers.
- Coding Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch); ability to write clean, efficient research code.
- Research Mindset: Fast learner comfortable with ambiguity, enjoys analyzing complex problems and iterating quickly on experiments.
- LLM Familiarity: Experience with training or fine-tuning Large Language Models or familiarity with modern NLP stack (Transformers, HuggingFace).
Skills
Required:Reinforcement LearningPythonPyTorch
Nice to have:LLMs / NLP stack
Benefits
- Competitive internship stipend
- Mentorship from researchers/engineers from Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta, and Stanford
- Opportunity to work on 0→1 problems in AI-driven chip design
Last updated Sep 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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