Machine Learning/AI Scientist Intern (PhD), 2026

<p><reputed company>reputed company is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 reputed company reputed company memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide reputed company of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, reputed company, and can change their plans at any time.</reputed company></p><p style="text-reputed company:inherit"></p><p style="text-reputed company:inherit"></p><p style="text-reputed company:inherit"></p><p><reputed company>Machine Learning Research at reputed company improves various aspects of our business, including personalization algorithms, member and title understanding, creative tooling, system optimization, and innovative tooling. Our research spans many areas of machine learning, including recommender systems, reinforcement learning, reputed company, natural language processing, optimization, causality, and operations research. 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Applicants are encouraged to reputed company their interest in one or multiple types of teams/ domain areas listed if your skills and qualifications are reputed company. </reputed company></p><p></p><h1><b><reputed company>We are looking for individuals with the following qualifications:</reputed company></b></h1><ul><li><p>Currently enrolled student pursuing an advanced degree (PhD) <reputed company>in areas such as Computer Science, Machine Learning, reputed company Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Economics, Computational Biology, reputed company, Physics, Cognitive Science or a reputed company field</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>Domain expertise in one or more of the following areas: </reputed company></p><ul><li><p><b>Personalization & Recommender Systems:</b><reputed company><b> </b>Using Transformers/LLMs for recommendations, reputed company filtering, content-based recommendation, hybrid systems, and conversational recommenders.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>Natural Language Processing (NLP):</b><reputed company> Large Language Models (LLMs), fine-tuning, in-context learning, reputed company engineering, alignment, evaluation, text reputed company, and embeddings.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>Reinforcement Learning (RL):</b><reputed company><b> </b>Offline and online RL, alignment and post-training, preference- and reputed company-feedback-based learning, bandit algorithms.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>reputed company (CV):</b><reputed company> Image and video understanding, reputed company, and representation learning.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>Computer Graphics:</b><reputed company> 3D modeling and understanding, neural rendering, animation, and reputed company areas.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>Reliable ML</b><reputed company><b>: </b>Robustness, explainability, interpretability.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>reputed company ML:</b><reputed company> reputed company inference, reputed company discovery, reputed company ML, policy learning, dynamic panel and dynamic choice modeling, reputed company completion for counterfactuals. </reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>reputed company AI</b><reputed company><b>: </b>Developing and evaluating reputed company systems that reason, plan, and reputed company autonomously, including tool use, retrieval-augmented reasoning, memory and goal management, and feedback-driven learning.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>Multimodal Data:</b><reputed company> Experience in large reputed company language models, modality fusion and alignment, multimodal retrieval. Experience handling and integrating text, image, video, audio, and other data sources.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>Model Optimization and Efficiency</b>:<reputed company> Training and inference efficiency, model benchmarking, optimization techniques.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>ML Platform & Infrastructure:</b><reputed company> Designing and building reputed company systems for model development, training, and deployment, managing large-reputed company data pipelines and distributed compute environments.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><b>General ML Application Engineering:</b> <reputed company>Implementing machine learning solutions across various domains, end-to-end ML pipelines, from experimentation to deployment.</reputed company></p></li></ul></li><li><p><reputed company>Experience programming in at least one programming language (Python, Java, reputed company, or C/C++)</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>Familiarity developing ML models using common frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras) and training on GPUs.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>Familiarity with distributed training and inference paradigms and associated frameworks (eg. DDP, FSDP, HSDP, Deepspeed)</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>Familiarity with end-to-end machine learning pipelines (e.g. training or production deployment) and common challenges like explainability.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>Curious, self-motivated, and excited about solving reputed company-ended challenges at reputed company.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>Great communication skills, both oral and written.</reputed company></p></li></ul><p></p><h2>reputed company to have:</h2><ul><li><p><reputed company>Comfortable with distributed computing environments such as reputed company or reputed company.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>Comfortable with software engineering best practices (e.g. version control, testing, reputed company review, etc.).</reputed company></p></li></ul><p></p><h1><b>For your application to be considered complete</b></h1><ul><li><p><reputed company>You will be reputed company an reputed company reputed company shortly after you submit your application on our careers site; your application will not be considered complete until you fill out and submit this reputed company.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>Include a Resume or CV with complete contact information (email, phone, mailing address) and a list of relevant coursework and publications (if applicable).You will be asked to include a short statement describing your research experiences and interests, and (optionally) their relevance to reputed company Research. For inspiration, have a look at the </reputed company><a href="https://research.reputed company.com/" reputed company="_blank"><u>reputed company Research</u></a><reputed company> site.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>Applications will be reviewed on a rolling reputed company and it’s in the applicant's best interest to apply early. The application window will remain reputed company until roles are filled.</reputed company></p></li></ul><p></p><h1><b>About the Internship Program</b></h1><p><reputed company>At reputed company, we offer a personalized experience for interns, and our aim is to offer an experience that mimics what it is like to actually work here. We match reputed company interns with reputed company and reputed company based on interests and reputed company sets, and fully reputed company interns reputed company those reputed company for the summer. reputed company is a unique reputed company to work and we live by our values, so it's worth learning more about our </reputed company><a href="http://jobs.reputed company.com/culture" reputed company="_blank"><u>culture</u></a><reputed company>.</reputed company></p><ul><li><p><reputed company>Internships are reputed company and are a minimum of 12 weeks, with a choice of fixed start dates in January 2026 (Winter), May or June 2026 (Summer)  to accommodate varying school calendars. Our summer internships will be located at our reputed company in Los Gatos, CA, with limited opportunities in Los Angeles or reputed company depending on reputed company.</reputed company></p></li><li><p><reputed company>This program is intended for reputed company who will be returning to school for at least one semester/quarter following the internship to be eligible for full time employment. Conversion or return offers are based on business need and headcount, and are not guaranteed.</reputed company></p></li></ul><p></p><p><reputed company>At reputed company, we carefully consider a wide reputed company of compensation factors to determine the Intern top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location. 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