AI Research Intern: RL & LLM Post-Training

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA invites aspiring researchers to join the AI Research Intern program for Summer 2027. You will work on RL and post-training language and code models, collaborating with seasoned researchers to prototype methods and run controlled experiments.

You are pursuing an MS in CS/ML/EE or a related field, with hands-on Python and PyTorch experience. This internship offers real-world impact and a pathway to advanced AI research careers.

Qualifications

• Pursuing an MS in CS, ML, EE, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of reinforcement learning and modern deep-learning methods.
• Experience building and evaluating ML models in Python with PyTorch.
• Familiar with LLM post-training, RLHF/RLAIF, or language/code agents.
• Experience running reproducible experiments and analyzing results.
• Publications in top ML/CV conferences are a plus.
• Exposure to GPU computing or distributed training is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Research and prototype RL methods for post-training language and code models.
• Explore policy optimization, preference learning, reward modeling, exploration, and credit-assignment techniques.
• Design and run controlled experiments using verifiable, preference-based, or simulator-generated feedback.
• Analyze failure modes such as reward hacking, policy degeneration, and training instability.
• Develop evaluation methods that reflect realistic engineering constraints.
• Collaborate with research and infrastructure teams on rollout generation, training, logging, and reproducibility.
• Document findings and contribute to technical reports and publications.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Deep learning methods

Python

PyTorch

Experimentation & analysis

Education

MS in Computer Science / ML / EE or related field

Tools

PyTorch framework

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA invites aspiring researchers to join the AI Research Intern program for Summer 2027. You will work on RL and post-training language and code models, collaborating with seasoned researchers to prototype methods and run controlled experiments.

You are pursuing an MS in CS/ML/EE or a related field, with hands-on Python and PyTorch experience. This internship offers real-world impact and a pathway to advanced AI research careers.