Research Scientist Intern - NLP/ LLM

GeniesSan Mateo, California, United StatesOnsite

Genies is culture’s avatar technology company empowering developers and artists to create their own interoperable gamified consumer experiences. The company has raised $250 million from investors including Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger. Initially, Genies were adopted by thousands of Hollywood icons including Justin Bieber and Rihanna through partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. Today, the company is also delivering avatars to the masses through experiences built with its Developer Kit and artist crowdsourced platform, The Workshop. These experiences all integrate together to form one avatar social network, Genies Party.

Genies is looking for an

Research Scientist Intern

to join us at our Bay Area office in San Mateo CA, you will work closely with a dedicated and talented team of Engineers and Researchers. In this role, you'll be diving into the innovative intersection of LLM, data and gaming. Your role will be instrumental in developing a cutting-edge system, underpinned by advanced LLM, to unlock new dimensions of designer and player interaction. We're looking for someone who is passionate about creating high-quality visuals and has the technical foundation to help us build the next wave of data analysis and game playing experience. Our internship program has a minimum duration of 12 weeks, with flexible start dates available throughout the year.

What You’ll be Doing:

Contribute to real-world products by researching and developing LLM-driven solutions and pipelines aimed at transforming decision making through comprehensive analysis and strategic insights.
Design evaluations and perform both controlled experiments and observational analyses to assess system effectiveness.
Absorb machine learning literature, particularly in natural language processing, and quickly prototype new techniques by engaging with relevant research papers and textbooks.
Explore the feasibility of productization, identifying issues and gaps that may lead to direct production implementations or inspire new research directions for publication.

What You Should Have:

Minimum Requirements:

Currently enrolled in or a recent graduate of a PhD degree program in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.
Minimum 12 weeks internship. 40 hours per week is strongly preferred with hybrid onsite arrangement.
Solid understanding of machine learning concepts and recent natural language processing techniques.
Familiarity with programming languages such as Python and experience with machine learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Hugging Face).
Ability to conduct research and prototype solutions based on academic literature.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly and effectively.

Preferred Requirements:

Demonstrated experience in developing LLM-driven solutions and pipelines through publications on venus including: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI and etc.
Deep understanding of and experience with the latest natural language processing techniques.
Demonstrated solid software development skills through ML/NLP projects
Hands-on experience working with LLMs and familiarity with popular prompt methods such as chain-of-thought, and graph-of-thought.
Experience with SQL/Code generation for data analysis

Here's why you'll love working at Genies:

Salary $58 per hour.
You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a hybrid(office+home) policy
You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded
Flexible paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays, in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement
Choice of MacBook or windows laptop

Genies is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity, inclusion, and aim to provide a sense of belonging for everyone.

Life at Genies

Thrive Here & What We ValueWell-funded, growing start-up that cares deeply about each employee's growth and success | Breadth of scope for exciting new challenges and opportunities | Flexible hours and work from home policy | Comprehensive health insurance, dental and vision insurance, competitive salaries, 401K program, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays | Equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment</s> | Promoting an equal opportunity employer | Flexible hours and hybrid(office+home) policy</s> | Genies is a well-funded, growing start-up that cares deeply about each of our employees' growth and success. | Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (Anthem + Kaiser Options Available), Dental and Vision Insurance | Competitive salaries and 401K program for all full time employees | Flexible paid time off, sick time, monthly mental health days and paid company holidays; in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees | Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement | Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide! | Choice of MacBook or windows laptop | Genies is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity, inclusion, and aim to provide a sense of belonging for everyone.</s> | Flexible paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays, in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees | Choice of MacBook or intel based laptop | Robust health, wellness, and benefits package for full-time employees | Unlimited paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays, in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees | Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement</s> | Genies is culture’s leading avatar technology company empowering humans to create their own avatar experiences | To-date, Genies has been widely adopted by cultural tastemakers and has partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as their rosters’ “official avatar.” | Genies has recently launched its consumer arm via its AR Developer Kit which allows developers to create interoperable avatar experiences for mobile and hardware AR. | Their first avatar experience, Silver Studio, allows users to design and exchange digital fashion. | Genies has raised $250M from investors such as Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger valuing the company at $1 billion. | Seated in our new Bay Area office, Genies is looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to own the end-to-end recruiting process for our core & emerging tech teams; e.g. - Cloud and Infrastructure to Machine Learning and AR. | As a Senior Technical Recruiter with Genies you will partner directly with our engineering leadership team to fulfill key hiring goals, and strategically work with them to identify future hiring needs. | Our ideal candidate must have 6+ years of in-house experience, particularly within a start-up environment, and will bring an extensive and diverse network of candidates local to the bay area. | You enjoy going outside the normal realms of talent acquisition to engage and recruit best-in-class technical talent, and can easily assimilate complex information on crux technologies and our company's mission to a wide array of backgrounds. | If you're curious about the future of communication and want to reshape the digital identity realm through Avatar AI, Immersive Experiences, and Avatar social networks then Genies is your next home.</s> | Genies is defining the future of avatars, identity, interoperability, and digital social experiences. | Competitive salaries and 401K program for all full-time employees | Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide!</s> | Genies leads the way in developing next-gen AI avatars for celebrities, enabling personalized interactions, social experiences, and adaptive learning. | Our mission is to revolutionize digital avatars and their ability to be interoperable across digital experiences; making them empathetic and authentic in user interactions, ushering in a new era of social engagement. | Genies will deliver on creating an interoperable avatar network. Are you up for helping us make it happen? Join us in shaping the future of avatar technology!</s> | Well-funded, growing startup that cares deeply about each employee’s growth and success | Flexible hours and a work from home policy | New MacBook Pro M3 portable workstation | Brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space</s> | Our roles and their responsibilities are created with a breadth of scope that introduces each employee to exciting new challenges and opportunities that a growing start-up encounters. | Competitive salaries for all full time employees | The actual base pay is dependent upon a number of factors, including: professional background, training, transferable skills, work experience, education, location, business and product needs, and market demand. | Full-time employees may also be eligible for equity compensation, in addition to a robust health, wellness, and benefits package.

Research Scientist Intern - NLP/ LLM