Summer 2027 Intern - AI Research

Overview

Summer 2027 research internship with Salesforce AI Research, working like a founder on high-impact enterprise AI research directions, prototyping and turning ideas into production-ready solutions.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with research scientists and engineers on a project focused on real-world product impact, with the opportunity to publish your work at top-tier conferences.
• Explore research directions with the potential to transform Enterprise AI.
• Help turn promising ideas into zero-to-one AI product prototypes.
• Build models, agents, and AI systems for real-world enterprise use.
• Learn how research partners with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to bring solutions to market.

What you'll need

• A strong publication record at top AI venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP) and/or experience building AI research into real-world systems.
• Experience with Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or DeepSpeed.
• Motivation by real-world impact and care about seeing research leave the lab and reach users at scale.
• Expertise in one or more core focus areas: Agentic AI and Reasoning (LLM-powered agents, reinforcement learning (RL), reasoning and planning, autonomous workflows, computer use agents, deep research agents, and coding agents); Multimodal and Computer Vision (vision-language models, video understanding, and multimodal AI agents); Speech Intelligence (voice intelligence, text-to-speech/automatic speech recognition, and low-latency audio processing); Core Modeling and Post-Training (pre-training and post-training techniques including RLHF and direct preference optimization, model distillation, evaluation, and time series modeling).
• Ability to conduct research with guidance from mentors and readiness to grow toward independence and translate ideas into impactful systems.

Nice to have

• PhD or MS candidate in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
• Experience building and scaling ML models for real-world applications.
• Strong programming skills (competitive programming, e.g., ACM-ICPC, or open source experience).
• Thoughtfulness about responsible AI, trust, and the real-world impact of the systems you build.
• Fantastic problem solver, able to tackle challenges the world hasn't solved before.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Collaborates effectively with teammates.

Details

• Location: Palo Alto, California.
• Summer 2027 internship with a minimum duration of 12 weeks.
• Fixed term and temporary job category.
• Base salary range of $49 - $68 per hour (base salary only; excludes bonus, incentive, equity or benefits).