PhD NLP & LLM Research Intern

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland (WA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible work schedules

Retirement plan (401k)

Job summary

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA, invites PhD candidates in computer science, data science, NLP, AI, or applied mathematics to join a research team dedicated to advancing large language models, NLP, and agentic AI. The position emphasizes hands-on Python development, model training and evaluation, data curation, and bridging research with engineering.

Flexible schedules and access to a world-class lab environment are provided, along with opportunities to publish and

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in a relevant technical field.
• Hands-on Python programming experience.
• Coursework or applied/research experience in NLP or large language models.
• Minimum GPA 3.0 is required.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Python programming

NLP

LLMs

Data science

Prompt engineering

GPA 3.0+

Education

PhD candidate in CS/DS/AI/Applied Math

Tools

Hugging Face

Docker

LangChain/LangGraph

PyTorch

AWS/Azure

Job description

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA, invites PhD candidates in computer science, data science, NLP, AI, or applied mathematics to join a research team dedicated to advancing large language models, NLP, and agentic AI. The position emphasizes hands-on Python development, model training and evaluation, data curation, and bridging research with engineering.

Flexible schedules and access to a world-class lab environment are provided, along with opportunities to publish and