Intent to return to the degree program after the completion of the internship/co-op Proven track record of research achievements as demonstrated by publications at leading venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLM, CoLLAs, KDD, WWW or ICWSM Research or project experience in one or more of: continual or lifelong learning, multi-task learning and model merging, active learning, knowledge distillation, LLM post-training (SFT, preference optimization, RL), uncertainty estimation and calibration, learning from AI feedback or LLM judges, multimodal modeling, or sequence/graph modeling of user behavior Experience applying ML to trust and safety, content moderation, fraud or abuse detection Experience with large-scale or parameter-efficient training (e.g., LoRA, distributed training) Demonstrated software development experience via internships, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used open-source contributions Experience working and communicating cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to frame real-world problems as rigorous ML problems and drive iterations from clear analysis
$7,650/month to $12,667/month + benefits