PhD Intern – Language Intelligence & NLP Systems

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; United States; On-site; USD 33,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking a PhD candidate to contribute to the application and evaluation of large language models, advance NLP methods, and apply data science techniques to real-world datasets.

The role emphasizes bridging research and engineering, prototyping functional solutions, and exploring agentic frameworks with Python-based workflows. Ideal candidates are pursuing a PhD in CS, data science, or related fields and have NLP/LLM coursework.

Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Data Science, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on Python programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Application and training/evaluation of large language models.
• NLP, prompt engineering and agentic solutions.
• General data science, data curation and processing.
• Applied mathematical principles to identify trends in data sets.

Skills

Python

NLP

LLMs

Education

PhD candidate in Computer Science / Data Science / Computational Linguistics / AI

Tools

Docker

Hugging Face

LangChain

Job description

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking a PhD candidate to contribute to the application and evaluation of large language models, advance NLP methods, and apply data science techniques to real-world datasets.

The role emphasizes bridging research and engineering, prototyping functional solutions, and exploring agentic frameworks with Python-based workflows. Ideal candidates are pursuing a PhD in CS, data science, or related fields and have NLP/LLM coursework.