AI Researcher — Intern

About the Internship

This role offers a unique vantage point: you will conduct original research while witnessing how those ideas move through a high-growth startup’s Go-To-Market (GTM) motion to create measurable impact for leading enterprises and LLM developers.

You’ll work closely with Snorkel researchers on open-ended projects and produce clear research outputs (experiments, prototypes, internal writeups, and potentially publications depending on project fit and timing).

What You’ll Do

• Innovate Human-AI Interaction: Design new paradigms for distilling human expertise into model behavior
• Define Frontier Capabilities: Collaborate with leading labs to develop the data strategies unlocking the next generation of agentic, reasoning and multi-modal models.
• See Real Impact in Weeks - something about being able to impact the business in fast cycles

Example Project Areas

Projects vary by mentor and collaboration needs, but may include:

• Synthetic data generation + filtering for specialized tasks
• Evaluation datasets and benchmarks for LLM / RAG / agent behavior
• Data-centric methods for improving reliability, calibration, and failure-mode coverage
• Evaluating HITL data annotation processes, gaps, and improvements

What We’re Looking For

• PhD Researcher: Currently pursuing a PhD in CS, Math, or Stats with a focus on ML or NLP and a strong publication record (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP).
• Builder-Thinker: You write clean, scalable code to validate your theories and are comfortable navigating complex codebases.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Curious about the business of AI—how startups scale, find product-market fit, and translate technical metrics into business ROI

Nice to have

• Prior work on evaluation, data curation, synthetic data, weak supervision, NLP, or multimodal ML.
• Experience collaborating with academic labs or participating in research programs.

Internship Details

• Duration: Up to six months
• Location: Hybrid (New York City Office) 
• Compensation: Competitive, commensurate with experience

Why Snorkel AI Research

Snorkel offers the intellectual rigor of an elite academic lab with the velocity of a category-defining technology company. You will gain a macro-view of the AI ecosystem, working where the world’s largest models meet the world’s most complex data.