Research Scientist Intern (Monetization Technology - Business Integrity) - 2027 Start (PhD)

Responsibilities

• check_circle In this role, you will build a leading moderation system that enables end-to-end capabilities for accurate rejection decisions, interpretable reasoning, and intelligent remediation, achieving fully automated moderation with performance surpassing human benchmarks.

Basic qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Automation, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical discipline (completed, or expecting to graduate within 12 months).
• Research experience in one or more of the following areas — Ads, Search, Recommender Systems, NLP, CV, Multimodal, or Agent technologies — demonstrated through publications, thesis work, internships, or research projects.
• Solid understanding of large language model methodology, including pre-training, post-training/alignment, and evaluation, with the ability to read, reproduce, and critique recent literature.
• Ability to independently formulate a research problem, design controlled experiments, and draw sound conclusions from ambiguous results.
• Proficient in Python and at least one deep learning framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Strong problem-solving ability, a collaborative mindset, and a genuine interest in translating research into real-world products.

Preferred qualifications

• Publications at top-tier venues (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI), or equivalent evidence of research ability.
• Experience with RLHF / post-training, reasoning, or novel model architecture design.
• Experience designing evaluation benchmarks or LLM/VLM-as-Judge methodologies.
• Experience building agentic systems, RAG pipelines, or multimodal applications.
• Track record of research that shipped into a production system.

Benefits

• check_circle Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location.
• check_circle Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more.
• check_circle Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year).
• check_circle Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

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