AI Researcher II, Intern

🔥 12 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $44k - $185k / year

⏱ Part Time

⚪️ Entry-level

🧠 AI Research Scientist

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Conduct research, development, and deployment of advanced AI systems • Work across large language models, agentic AI, multimodal learning, and enterprise-scale AI applications • Design experiments and develop new methods that translate frontier research into practical, scalable AI solutions • Improve training algorithms • Curate and optimize data at scale • Design infrastructure for purpose-built models aligned with Cisco business priorities and Foundation AI’s research agenda • Develop scalable data curation and processing methods to improve model training and task-specific performance • Build production-ready AI systems using strong software engineering practices • Optimize large language models and agentic systems for enterprise and security-focused use cases • Write scientific articles for top-tier machine learning and AI conferences • Publish technical blog posts • Contribute to the open-source AI community

🎯 Requirements

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program (Associate's or Bachelor's) with 2 years of work experience, or a Master’s degree program with 0 years of work experience • Qualifying education and work experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or a related field • Expected to continue enrollment in the degree program after completing the internship • Strong experience with Python, PyTorch, production-grade software engineering practices, and common AI/ML libraries • Experience with large language models, model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, inference, and optimization • Strong understanding of data pipelines, model experimentation, and scalable AI system design • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex research and engineering concepts to cross-functional partners • Preferred: experience designing scalable data curation methods and reliable infrastructure for large-scale model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment • Preferred: experience with vLLM, NVIDIA Triton, TorchServe, cloud-native deployment, Docker, Kubernetes, MLOps, AWS, GCP, or Azure • Preferred: research publications in top-tier AI/ML conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or ACL, or significant open-source AI contributions • Preferred: experience designing and scaling agentic AI workflows, multi-agent frameworks, and autonomous AI systems • Preferred: familiarity with cybersecurity principles, security-focused AI, safety, and robust machine learning

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • Paid parental leave • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance • Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants, vesting following continued employment • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid personal wellness days • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward annually • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies • Cisco careers site benefits and perks