Applied Research Intern, Proactive Intelligence & Customer World Models (PhD / Graduate Co-op)

Block
San Francisco, United States, Canada
Workplace: RemoteInternshipFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Education: mastersSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Team collaboration","Research","Presentation"]

Graduate research intern will own end-to-end research in proactive intelligence, working on Customer World Models, proactive intelligence, and agentic decision systems. You’ll frame questions, develop methods, run experiments, publish findings, and, if successful, ship work into production systems used by Block’s customers and sellers. Focus areas include representation learning, foundation models, RL, and learning from feedback loops.

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Block
Block
2 months ago

Applied Research Intern, Proactive Intelligence & Customer World Models (PhD / Graduate Co-op)

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Job Summary

Graduate research intern will own end-to-end research in proactive intelligence, working on Customer World Models, proactive intelligence, and agentic decision systems. You’ll frame questions, develop methods, run experiments, publish findings, and, if successful, ship work into production systems used by Block’s customers and sellers. Focus areas include representation learning, foundation models, RL, and learning from feedback loops.
Location: San Francisco, United States, Canada
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Internship
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own a research problem end-to-end: framing the question, developing methods, running experiments, publishing findings, and shipping successful work into production systems.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkHealth InsuranceRetirement Savings

Key Requirements

  • •Currently enrolled in an MS or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related field, and returning to that program after the co-op.
Experience:Machine learningArtificial intelligence
Education:Master's
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingTeam collaborationResearchPresentation
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchJAXFoundation modelsRepresentation learningReinforcement learning

Company Brief

Block
Builds financial services and commerce tools to empower businesses and individuals, operating products such as Square, Cash App, Spiral (Bitcoin initiatives), TIDAL, and developer-focused payment and banking solutions.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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