Edge AI Research Intern - Production-Ready Systems

Serverlessvc; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Serverless Ventures is seeking an AI Researcher Intern to explore Edge AI, Vertical AI, and large-scale content generation. You’ll work directly with founders and engineers to design, prototype, and validate scalable, production-grade AI systems.

Remote-friendly with Austin, TX local preference, you will own research questions and translate findings into engineering actions. You’ll survey literature, run experiments, and document results while collaborating across ML, NLP, and multimodal

Qualifications

• Stay current with AI/ML literature and distill what matters.
• Design and run structured experiments with clear hypotheses.
• Identify gaps between state-of-the-art research and production reality.
• Communicate findings with rigor and clarity.
• Take full ownership of assigned research tracks and deliver on timelines.
• Surface insights proactively, don't wait to be asked.

Responsibilities

• Survey and synthesize research across LLMs, agents, multimodal systems, and edge inference.
• Run experiments and prototype novel AI approaches.
• Evaluate model performance, benchmark outputs, and identify failure modes.
• Translate research findings into actionable engineering recommendations.
• Collaborate directly with founders and engineers on open research questions.
• Contribute to internal documentation, technical memos, and research reports.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

PyTorch

JAX

ML fundamentals

Transformer architectures

LLM internals

Evaluation methodologies

NLP

computer vision

reinforcement learning

Loop Engineering

Prompt engineering

fine-tuning

RAG pipelines

Hugging Face

LangChain

OpenClaw

GitHub

cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Education

BS/MS/PhD in a relevant field

Tools

Hermes Agent

Deer Flow

OpenClaw

Hugging Face ecosystem

LangChain

Job description

Serverless Ventures is seeking an AI Researcher Intern to explore Edge AI, Vertical AI, and large-scale content generation. You’ll work directly with founders and engineers to design, prototype, and validate scalable, production-grade AI systems.

Remote-friendly with Austin, TX local preference, you will own research questions and translate findings into engineering actions. You’ll survey literature, run experiments, and document results while collaborating across ML, NLP, and multimodal