Research Intern

Were hiring a Research Intern to help us answer a question no one has answered yet: how do you train a model that is genuinely good at research

This is hard and largely uncharted. Very few groups have managed to teach LLMs to perform the open-ended long-horizon reasoning that real research demands: forming a hypothesis designing an experiment reading the result and deciding what to try next. Were doing it with a small team and a strong prior that research data can be used in a highly efficient and ingenious way.

As a Research Intern youll own a real research question rather than a ticket. Depending on your interests that might mean turning a corpus of arXiv papers into reinforcement learning environments designing reward signals for ambiguous long-horizon research tasks building tight RL loops between user data and model training or constructing research-focused benchmarks.

What youll do

• Post-train models for scientific and computational research tasks

• Build evaluations and benchmarks for such tasks and use them to measure frontier models and our own

Required qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science Statistics or Linguistics

• Research experience in at least one area of machine learning or its neighbors (natural language processing deep learning reinforcement learning optimization statistics etc.)

• Ability to move quickly in a zero-to-one environment

Preferred qualifications

• A track record of research contributions such as first-author publications at major ML conferences (NeurIPS ICML ICLR) or strong journals.

• Hands-on experience training fine-tuning or benchmarking large modern models.

• Enrolled at a degree program in the US or Canada returning to the program after the internship.

About this role

We work in-person 5 days a week out of our office in Midtown Manhattan. We cover generous benefits for employees including medical dental and vision insurance lunch and dinner covered and other varied stipends.

We pride ourselves on a company culture that values a diversity of thoughts and opinions.

About Quadrillion

Quadrillion Labs builds Qualia an agentic research intelligence platform that does real computational research running experiments analyzing data and surfacing insight for the people who do this work at the highest level.

Were a team out of Stanford NLP HRT Citadel Jane Street Google Research and Harvard Med building for an audience that looks a lot like us. Weve raised $18M from Conviction Audacious Bloomberg Beta ex/ante and angels including Wes McKinney the creator of pandas. Were 10 people in NYC scaling to 15 in the coming months.

We think this is the Industrial Revolution moment for research and were building the team to define what comes next.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Quadrillion Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring and employment decisions without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. We are committed to building a team where talented people can do their best work.

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Required Experience:

Intern