Foundation Models Jobs

Innodata is seeking a Research Scientist to lead the science of data for robotics foundation models. This role involves partnering directly with customers and frontier labs to define how data is designed, structured, and evaluated for next-generation AI systems in robotics. You will leverage scientific judgment to make high-leverage decisions about data capture, synthesis, representation, and evaluation, ensuring that the data collected and generated directly supports the development of robust and transferable AI models for manipulation, locomotion, vision-language-action, and world models.

$160k - $185k

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The Inference Research team is dedicated to building the next generation of efficient, scalable, and reliable serving systems for large foundation models, advancing open and transparent AI. This role operates at the intersection of model architectures, high-performance systems engineering, and hardware optimization, focusing on co-designing software, algorithms, and models to reduce the cost and latency of AI systems. As a research intern, you will explore distributed inference, compiler-aware optimization, and novel inference-time computation strategies, co-designing and implementing cross-layer optimizations across models, systems, and hardware.

Together AI

The Inference Research team is dedicated to building the next generation of efficient, scalable, and reliable serving systems for large foundation models, advancing open and transparent AI. This role operates at the intersection of model architectures, high-performance systems engineering, and hardware optimization, focusing on co-designing software, algorithms, and models to reduce the cost and latency of AI systems. As a research intern, you will explore distributed inference, compiler-aware optimization, and novel inference-time computation strategies, co-designing and implementing cross-layer optimizations across models, systems, and hardware, with a focus on KV cache design and large-scale serving architectures. Projects aim to unlock unprecedented performance and scale for foundation models, enabling faster serving, larger model deployment, and robust evaluation under realistic serving workloads.

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The Agents team investigates how to build, align, and scale frontier AI systems capable of complex, multi-step tasks across text and speech, focusing on agentic and scientific domains. This role sits at the intersection of agent capabilities, human-computer interaction, and infrastructure, exploring areas like post-training methods for agentic behavior and evaluation frameworks for open-ended tasks. As a research intern, you will tackle challenges in alignment, reliability, and scalability, potentially working on new training recipes for self-learning, curating datasets for non-deterministic tasks, studying agentic behavior failure modes, or building large-scale agent operation infrastructure.

Together AI

The Agents team focuses on building, aligning, and scaling advanced AI systems capable of handling complex, multi-step tasks and workflows across text and speech, particularly in agentic and scientific domains. This role sits at the intersection of agent capabilities, human-computer interaction, and infrastructure, exploring areas like post-training methods for agentic behavior and evaluation frameworks for open-ended tasks. As a research intern, you will contribute to cutting-edge agentic AI challenges, addressing issues of alignment, reliability, and scalability. Projects may involve developing new training techniques for self-learning and long-horizon reasoning, curating datasets for scientific and agentic tasks, analyzing agentic behavior failure modes, or building scalable agent operation infrastructure.

Join our groundbreaking research team as we revolutionize the future of physical AI through advanced generative models. As a Research Scientist specializing in Generative AI for Physical AI, you will be at the forefront of developing next-generation algorithms that bridge the gap between virtual and physical realms. You will work with state-of-the-art technology and have access to massive computational resources to bring your ideas to life, shaping the future of AI where digital intelligence meets physical reality.

$168k - $265k

NVIDIA is seeking a leader in AI-enabled drug discovery science to coordinate research and development efforts. This role bridges RNA therapeutics, experimental data generation, computational modeling, and translational science. The ideal candidate is a hands-on researcher experienced in guiding scientific teams, making technical trade-offs, and ensuring alignment across experimental, data, model, and compute activities. You will be responsible for converting scientific objectives into executable plans, leading workstreams in data curation, machine learning, and platform engineering, and guiding closed-loop learning processes. This position requires establishing robust science-stream governance and providing clear reporting on progress, dependencies, and risks to program leadership.

$224k - $431k

We are seeking a skilled engineer to join our Autonomous Vehicles team, focusing on the L3/L4 autonomous-driving solution. You will be instrumental in developing a comprehensive, learned 3D/4D world model by fusing navigation, ego-motion, perception, and sensor signals. This role involves close collaboration with perception, prediction, planning, and simulation teams to create a world representation that is complete, temporally consistent, uncertainty-aware, and robust for challenging driving scenarios. Our vision is to develop a shared multimodal scene representation that supports road understanding, 3D object perception, motion prediction, and planning, aiming to achieve human-level AI for navigation in unconstrained environments.

The Institute of Foundation Models is a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance research, cultivate future AI builders, and make transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers. You will tackle fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development, contributing to groundbreaking AI solutions with the potential to reshape industries. Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills are essential for establishing MBZUAI as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning and driving impactful discoveries.

$150k - $400k