Causal AI Research Intern: Human-Centered ML

Toyota Research Institute; Los Altos (CA); Ibrido; USD 62.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Paid internship

Descrizione del lavoro

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) seeks a highly motivated PhD research intern to join the Adaptive Behavior Systems team within the Human-Centered AI Division. The intern will study causal reasoning in language models, collaborate with ML, behavioral, and social scientists, and explore methods to test and improve LLM reasoning with potential publication.

The 12-week Summer 2027 internship is paid and hybrid, with in-office collaboration in California.

Competenze

• PhD student in AI/ML, CS, data science, statistics, or related field.
• Publication record or demonstrated research experience in causal inference.
• Hands-on experience with one or more: LLM evaluation, prompting, fine-tuning, or architectural changes.

Mansioni

• Publish research findings in a relevant venue and contribute to project milestones.
• Lead project ideation from inception to validation of methods.
• Collaborate with cross-functional researchers to apply generative AI to human behavior.

Conoscenze

PhD research

Python programming

DL frameworks

LLM evaluation

Prompting and prompting optimization

Mechanistic interpretability

Research publication

Team collaboration

Formazione

PhD candidate in AI/ML/CS

Strumenti

PyTorch

Descrizione del lavoro

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) seeks a highly motivated PhD research intern to join the Adaptive Behavior Systems team within the Human-Centered AI Division. The intern will study causal reasoning in language models, collaborate with ML, behavioral, and social scientists, and explore methods to test and improve LLM reasoning with potential publication.

The 12-week Summer 2027 internship is paid and hybrid, with in-office collaboration in California.