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Research Intern, Frontier Speculative Decoding (Winter 2027)

Together AI · San Francisco

Infrastructureonsiteintern$121k–$146k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build draft models that make frontier LLMs generate faster without changing outputs.
  • Train draft models at scale and test ideas against realistic serving workloads.
  • Help bring successful speculative decoding ideas into production systems.

What they offer

  • Housing stipends
  • Competitive benefits

Ideal candidate

A Master's or PhD student obsessed with efficient inference who enjoys co-designing models and systems and turning research prototypes into real-world speedups.

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing a Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
  • Strong knowledge of Machine Learning and Deep Learning fundamentals
  • Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning large models with distributed training frameworks
  • Familiarity with modern model architectures such as Mixture-of-Experts and hybrid attention

Lab profile

About Together AI

AI-native cloud for training and inference on large-scale GPU infrastructure for AI apps and agents.

What they build

  • AI-native cloud platform
  • GPU clusters for training and inference
  • Platform for AI applications and agents

Known for

  • Operating large-scale GPU fleets
  • Automated infrastructure at massive scale
  • Multi-site data center deployment

Key facts

  • Over 1M developers
  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
  • Infrastructure managing tens of thousands of GPUs
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