Careers · AI
AI Research Intern
Research-leaning work on model evaluation, agent reliability, fine-tuning experiments and the AI systems behind Vestval AI and the Robotics Lab.
Apply for this roleWhat you'll do
- Design and run experiments on model behavior and reliability
- Read papers, reproduce results, write internal research notes
- Build evaluation datasets and benchmarks for our domains
- Contribute findings to product and Robotics Lab teams
- Maintain reproducible experiment infrastructure
- Present results to engineering and product audiences
Required skills
- Strong Python and ML fundamentals (transformers, training loops)
- Statistical literacy — you know what a significant result is
- Clear technical writing
- Bonus: published work, Kaggle, open-source ML contributions
Preferred / bonus
- Hands-on fine-tuning or LoRA experience
- Familiarity with PyTorch and HuggingFace ecosystems
- Has reproduced at least one paper end-to-end
- Interest in safety, alignment or evaluation literature
Who should apply
Final-year students or graduates with genuine research instinct — people who reproduce papers for fun and distrust unbenchmarked claims.
Ideal candidate profile
- You take experimental hygiene seriously — seeds, splits, baselines
- You'd rather publish a small honest negative result than a big noisy positive one
- You can translate research into engineering constraints
What you'll learn
- Applied evaluation methodology for production AI
- Trade-offs between fine-tuning, prompting and retrieval
- Working with applied engineers to land research in product
- Writing for engineers and decision-makers, not reviewers
Tools & stack
Growth path
Path toward applied research roles spanning AI products and robotics R&D — rare exposure for an early-career researcher.
Months 0–3
Reproduce, benchmark and document. Own one evaluation surface.
Months 3–6
Run an independent experiment whose results inform a product decision.
Year 1 (Applied Researcher)
Bridge research and product on a Vestval AI workstream.
Years 2+
Specialise — evaluation, reliability, retrieval, perception (Robotics Lab) — with publication freedom.
How to apply
Use the application form on the careers page — select Internship as role type and mention AI Research Intern in your motivation note. Attach a résumé and anything you've built that you're proud of.
FAQ
AI Research Intern — frequently asked
- Yes. All Vestval internships carry a monthly stipend benchmarked to role and city. Stipend is discussed at the offer stage — not the application stage.
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