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PhD Research Intern

Simular · Palo Alto, California

Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Employment
Internship
Level
Internship
Posted
11 months ago

About this role

Where multiple locations are listed for this role, the position may be based in any of those locations, with priority determined according to the order of listing.

What you’ll do

As a PhD intern, you will:

  • Collaborate with research scientists to advance methods in:

    • Planning and RL for computer use (e.g. behavioral cloning, RL on model weights, RAG-based domain knowledge)

    • Multimodal grounding (e.g. vision-only models, tree search, hybrid methods with large models)

    • Reward/judge modeling (e.g. error analysis, human evaluation, training judge models)

    • User intent understanding (e.g. modeling vague queries, preference learning)

  • Contribute to building datasets, running experiments, and benchmarking results

  • Explore novel approaches and help derisk Simular’s long-term technical roadmap

  • Document and communicate findings through internal reports or academic-style writing

    • You might be a fit if

    • Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field

    • Research background in at least one of: Reinforcement learning, Large language/vision-language models, Computer vision and multimodal perception, Representation learning

    • Experience conducting experiments and publishing or preparing papers in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ACL, etc.)

    • Strong coding and prototyping skills in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch/JAX)

    • Curiosity, initiative, and interest in bridging fundamental research with applied AI

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    About Simular

    Simular is a research-driven AI company building autonomous computers to free human work and enhance life. Our first product is Sai, an always-on AI agent that uses computers just like humans do. Founded by former AI researchers at Google DeepMind, Simular develops computer-using agents (CUA) that operate across digital environments with human-level capabilities, backed by our benchmark-topping agentic framework. Simular is backed by investors including Felicis, NVentures (Nvidia), South Park Commons, and Lenny Rachitsky.

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