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Applied Research PhD Intern - AgenticAI

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Job Summary

PhD-level research internship focused on evaluating enterprise agentic AI systems, building the Agent Gym for multi-step agent workflows, and contributing to Responsible AI tooling. Collaborate with the Office of the CTO to design experiments that identify failure modes, quantify trade-offs, and produce a concrete research artifact within 12 weeks.

Location: United States

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Internship · 3 months

Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Seniority: Intern level

Key Responsibilities

•Design evaluations that catch failure modes of enterprise agents (hallucinated tool calls, policy violations, context collapse, distribution shift) and implement robust evaluation strategies.
•Build the Agent Gym — including task definitions, graders, reward signals, and trajectory capture for multi-step agentic workflows.
•Run experimentation sweeps across prompts, models, and scaffolds to quantify trade-offs between accuracy, cost, and latency.
•Translate evaluation results into promotion gates and readiness reports for product teams to act on.
•Contribute to Responsible AI tooling, including grounding checks, policy enforcement, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 73,800 - 123,000 annually

Key Requirements

•Candidates must be currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a closely related field with active research in LLMs, agents, reinforcement learning, AI safety, or evaluation methodology.

Experience:LLMsAgentsReinforcement learningAI safetyEvaluation methodology

Education:PhD / Doctorate

Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCollaborationResearchExperimental design

Languages:English

Tech Stack:LLMsReinforcement learningRLHFRLVREvaluation harnessesRAG pipelinesDataset curationOpen-source

Company Brief

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Provides IT service management, automation, and operations software to help enterprises manage digital services, cloud infrastructure, and mainframe environments with monitoring, service desk, and AIOps solutions.

Industry: Enterprise Software

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Established Company

Funding: Private Equity Backed

Headquarters: Houston, United States

Founded: 1980

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