Research Scientist Intern (AI Infra Compute) - 2027 Start (PhD)

About the team

Compute division focuses on building large-scale and highly available cloud infrastructure, which supports both public cloud products (like VolcEngine ECS service) and internal products. The Compute-US team focuses on the development and research of the compute infrastructure platform. This internship provides students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, blending hands-on learning, community-building, and professional development with collaboration alongside industry experts.

Responsibilities

• Explore and develop key technologies for our AI Infra stack, including AI training and inference platforms, AI Agent infrastructure, etc.
• Build prototypes to verify the functionality and performance of key components or innovations.
• Showcase research findings and products through academic publications.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in at least one of the following areas: LLM training/Inference, Physical AI Infra (training, inference, simulation, RL, synthetic data, etc).
• Ability to work independently and complete projects from beginning to end in a timely manner.
• Good communication and teamwork skills to clearly communicate technical concepts with teammates.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Code contributions to open source communities like PyTorch, vLLM, or SGLang.
• Publications in relevant computer science conferences such as OSDI or MLSYS.

Benefits

• Day one access to health insurance, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in the first half of the year, 40 if hired in the second half).
• Eligibility for housing allowance (for interns not working 100% remote).

Pay

The hourly rate range for this position is $60–$60.

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