ML Research Intern
- Salary
- $15K per month
- Level
- Intern
- Work type
- On-site · New York
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 29 July 2026.
About the role
Modal's standard text
About Us:
AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.
Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.
Our customers include category-defining companies like Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.
We've passed $1B in annualized run rate, up 15x from a year ago. In October 2026 we raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B valuation.
Modal's standard text
Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn,Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
The Role:
We are looking for PhD research interns with strong research experience in reinforcement learning, machine learning, and foundation models, including large language and multimodal models, to join our research team. This internship is well suited to candidates interested in improving existing methods and developing new techniques for large-scale model training, optimization, and inference, extending models to long-context and long-horizon tasks, and improving inference-time efficiency, reliability, and robustness in high-stakes real-world deployments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
- A demonstrated record of research in reinforcement learning, machine learning, foundation models, or related areas.
- Experience developing and evaluating large-scale models or machine learning systems.
- Familiarity with distributed training, large-scale inference, or multi-GPU environments.
- Publications at leading venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, CoRL, UAI, JMLR, or TMLR.
- Strong programming and engineering skills, with the ability to translate research ideas into working implementations.
- A collaborative, mission-driven mindset and the ability to work effectively across research and engineering teams.
What this role asks for
Standard for data science / ML roles
Machine Learning
Common in data science / ML postings at any company.
In most of Modal's ads
Seaborn
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
60% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Modal's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Modal's other open postings on this site.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 24 open in Engineering. 7 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in October: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Seaborn (24 of 24), Linux (11 of 24), Linux Kernel (10 of 24), Serverless (8 of 24), LLM (7 of 24), Rust (7 of 24), Golang (4 of 24)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- IT Lead posted Oct 15
- Member of Technical Staff - Storage (Stockholm) posted Oct 14
- Member of Technical Staff - SDK (Stockholm) posted Oct 7
- Member of Technical Staff - Inference Runtime posted Oct 5
- Member of Technical Staff - Machines posted Sep 22
- Member of Technical Staff - Storage posted Sep 22
- Documentation Engineer posted Sep 21
- Inference Engineering and Product Lead posted Sep 16
- Detection and Response Engineer posted Aug 17
- Member of Technical Staff - Research, Post-Training posted Jul 5
- Member of Technical Staff - Research, Inference posted Jul 5
- Systems Engineering Manager posted May 19
- Member of Technical Staff - Product (Growth) posted May 18
- Infrastructure Security Engineer posted Apr 21
- Member of Technical Staff - ML Performance posted Apr 21
- Forward Deployed Engineer - ML posted Feb 23
- Systems Engineering Manager posted Feb 3
- Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering posted Jan 19
- Member of Technical Staff - Systems posted Jan 12
- Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend) posted Jan 9
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems posted Sep 23
- Member of Technical Staff - SDK posted Aug 22
- Member of Technical Staff - Systems posted Oct 23
From the team and dates on Modal's own job board.
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