Machine Learning Research Intern (Winter/Spring 2027)

Realm Labs; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 47,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-aligned compensation

Job summary

Realm Labs in Sunnyvale, CA, offers an ML research internship blending applied ML and software engineering with a focus on trust and safety in LLMs (prompt injections, alignment, privacy, interpretability).

Ideal candidates are PhD students or researchers with published work and strong ML background (PyTorch, HuggingFace, Transformers, datasets). Proficiency in Python, Unix, Git, and cloud usage is expected.

Qualifications

• PhD student or equivalent with published work.
• Reading and writing research papers and technical articles.
• Experience training and evaluating deep models.
• Nice to have finetuning LLMs and multi-modal LLMs.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to ML research on trust and safety in LLMs.
• Assist applied ML and software engineering tasks.
• Design experiments and evaluate models.

Skills

Research experience

Python

ML research

PyTorch

HuggingFace

Transformers

Datasets

Reading papers

Education

PhD student or equivalent research experience

Tools

PyTorch

HuggingFace

Transformers

Datasets

Job description

Role Overview

This internship is focused on ML research mixed with applied ML and software engineering. Topic of the internship is around trust and safety in LLMs such as:

• prompt injections
• safety alignment and guardrails
• privacy and confidentiality
• interpretability

Other topics closer aligned with the student's research may be considered.

Expected Background: ML

• Research experience
  • Ability to pose relevant questions, find answers in existing literature or plan and execute experiments.
  • Ability to read and write research papers and technical articles.
  • PhD student or student at any level with research experience and peer-reviewed published work.

• Machine learning tools: pytorch, huggingface, transformers, datasets.

• Applied deep learning and LLM experience.
  • Training and evaluating deep models.
  • (nice to have) finetuning LLMs, multi-modal LLMs.

• (nice to have) Familiarity with ML[NLP,LLM,Vision] interpretability methods, sparse autoencoders, linear probes.

Expected Background: Software Engineering

• Development environments and tools:
  • unix, git, basic clouds usage on AWS and/or GCP
  • jupyter

• Programming:
  • python
  • (nice to have) “programming languages well-roundedness”
  • experience in statically-typed and functional languages

Compensation & Benefits

• Market aligned compensation for interns in the bay area.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the USA or must be able to obtain CPT (Curricular Practical Training) approval from host university.
• The internship is expected to last at least 3 months and intersect most of the period starting from January, 2027 through end of March 2027.