2026 Machine Learning Research Intern
Role Overview
This is a machine learning research intern role where you'll work on advancing generative AI by collaborating with researchers and engineers. You'll focus on either fundamental research in foundation models and multi-modal systems or applied research optimizing training and inference performance for large-scale AI systems. As an intern, you'll contribute to publishing findings in top-tier conferences and developing open-source tools, impacting the development of cutting-edge AI technologies.
Perks & Benefits
This remote role requires presence in the San Francisco office 4 days a week, with Tuesday designated as a work-from-home day. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage for dependents, a 401k plan with a 2% company match, flexible paid time off, and wellness and commuter stipends for select roles. The company offers a collaborative environment with opportunities for career growth through publishing research and contributing to open-source projects.
Full Job Description
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.
*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
Join Lambda as a Machine Learning Research Intern and help advance the frontiers of generative AI. You’ll collaborate closely with world-class researchers and engineers, leveraging Lambda’s compute to optimize model and system performance.
Our interns work hands-on across two complementary tracks, Fundamental Research and Applied Research, depending on their interests and experience.
What You’ll Work On
Foundation Models, Multi-Modal, Agents
System benchmarking and performance optimization
Track 1: Fundamental Research
Research in foundation models for language, vision, life sciences and robotics.
Multi-modal research, including building efficient data and evaluation toolkits.
Publish findings in top-tier ML Research conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, ACL, SIGGRAPH), and/or as technical blogs, public datasets, benchmarks, and open-source tools.
Track 2: Applied Research
Maximize training and inference performance for large-scale AI systems.
Systematic model and agent evaluation.
Publish findings in top-tier ML system conferences (e.g. MLSys, OSDI, SOSP, NSDI), and/or as technical blogs, public dataset, benchmarks, and open-source tools.
You
BS, MS, or Ph.D. student in Computer Science or related field, focusing on Machine Learning.
Demonstrated project experience or publications in relevant areas.
Proficient in PyTorch or similar frameworks.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
Contributions to open-source machine learning projects.
Experience with foundation models, multi-modal, agentic systems.
Experience with dataset creation, evaluation design, or system benchmarking.
Experience optimizing model efficiency or scaling ML workloads.
Visit Lambda’s research page for more information about our work and opportunities: https://lambdalabs.com/research
Salary Range Information
This is an hourly role, eligible for overtime. The hourly rate for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a hourly rate higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Lambda
Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
A Final Note:
You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
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