NewsBreak
Research Intern, Agent RL Training
Mountain View, California, United States · Intern · Internship
Sponsorship not specified$35k-$50kDetected 57 days ago
PythonNode.jsPyTorchData EngineeringLLMsResearch
About the role
- We are looking for a Research Intern to join our Agent RL Training team.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with your full-time mentor to identify high-impact research directions for applying LLMs to NewsBreak's products
- Independently run end-to-end SFT experiments on LLM-based agents, and assist with RL-related exploration such as reward design and training iteration
- Contribute to public publications; we encourage and support top-venue submissions during your internship
- We value self-starters with deep intellectual curiosity and the drive to push boundaries in LLM post-training and agent capabilities.
- Curate and build high-quality training datasets: instruction-following, preference pairs, agent trajectories, and synthetic data
- At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents.
Nice to have
- Publication at a top-tier venue (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or equivalent)
- Experience with multi-node distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM)
- Proficiency in writing custom GPU kernels with Triton or CUDA
- Familiarity with open-source RL frameworks: TRL, OpenRLHF, veRL/vLLM
- Hourly Pay: $35- $50
- Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
Skills
- Strong Python and PyTorch skills
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below.
- Annual Base Pay Range
Benefits
- Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options.
- Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training.
Company info
- About NewsBreak
- Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy.
- With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.
- Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.
- Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.
- If you're inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we'd love to hear from you!
- For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about
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