Human-Centered AI Research Intern, Causal Reasoning Models
Hybrid (Los Altos, CA)$45/hr - $65/hrInternPosted 4w ago
About the role
Winter 2027 paid 12-week internship in the Adaptive Behavior Systems team within the Human-Centered AI Division, focusing on causal reasoning in LLMs. Hybrid in-office role based in Los Altos, CA.
Responsibilities
- Publish research in relevant venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CLeaR, UAI, COLM, ACL/EMNLP if linguistic focus, TMLR); potential ACIC or EuroCIM presentations.
- Take ownership of project from inception to validation of developed methods.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with researchers in multiple fields to research and develop technology leveraging generative AI to understand human behavior.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. student in AI/ML, computer science, data science, statistics, or related field.
- Publication record or demonstrated research experience in causal inference (structural causal models, identification, counterfactual reasoning).
- Hands-on experience with one or more: LLM evaluation/benchmarking; mechanistic interpretability; prompting and prompt optimization; supervised fine-tuning or RL with verifiable rewards; pretraining; architectural changes.
- Experience with Python and DL frameworks like PyTorch.
- Interest in human-centered research (behavioral science, computational social science) including experiments and user studies.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Skills
Required:Causal inferencePyTorch
Nice to have:LLM evaluation and benchmarkingMechanistic interpretabilityPrompting and prompt optimization
Benefits
- Generous benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, vacation and sick time, holiday pay.
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