AI Research Internship

Position Overview

Join Kitware's mission to create positive social impact through work in areas such as environmental monitoring, national and global security, ethical and responsible AI, open science, scientific computing, and medical computing.

In this role, you will develop robust solutions across various fields of AI, including Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision Language Models (VLMs), and Foundation Models.

Key technical tasks include developing algorithms to solve challenging problems such as:

• Object detection, classification, and tracking
• Video and image understanding and search
• 3D reconstruction from aerial imagery
• Reasoning and alignment in decision-making
• Threat detection and decision alignment in cybersecurity
• And other advanced technical challenges

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related AI field.
• Knowledge and experience in computer vision, foundation models, LLMs, machine learning, audio processing, or related areas.
• Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or other relevant tools.
• Must provide a list of publications as part of the resume/CV.
• Due to contractual requirements, only U.S. citizens will be considered.
• This is an on-site position requiring five days per week in the office.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with multiple large multimodal AI models encompassing image, text, and speech modalities.
• A publication history and a strong desire to publish in premier academic conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS).
• Experience and interest in contributing to open-source software community projects.