About the role#
Workato AI Lab is looking for graduate students to join our team in San Francisco. You will focus on fundamental problems in LLM-based agentic systems and efficient AI infrastructure. This role offers the opportunity to publish research while contributing to production systems used by global enterprises.
What you'll do#
- Conduct original research on LLM agent architectures and optimization techniques.
- Develop and evaluate novel algorithms with academic rigor and production feasibility.
- Present your work at internal research seminars and external conferences.
- Mentor and collaborate with LLM engineers on implementation and deployment.
- Work on fundamental problems in LLM-based agentic systems and efficient AI infrastructure.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing an MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, or related fields.
- Publications at top-tier venues such as ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or NAACL.
- Strong programming skills in Python and PyTorch.
- Ability to work in-person at our San Francisco office.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate across research and engineering teams.
- Experience with self-evolving agent systems.
- Proficiency in CUDA programming and custom kernel development for LLM operations.
- Background in reinforcement learning-based LLM fine-tuning.
- Track record of contributions to production inference systems like vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, or the Hugging Face ecosystem.
- Experience bridging academic research with production systems.
- Open-source contributions to widely-used ML infrastructure projects.
Location & details#
- Location: San Francisco, California.
- Terms: Winter 2027 and Spring 2027.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time, paid internship.
- Sponsorship: Not available.
About Workato
Workato provides an enterprise orchestration platform for business process automation and AI agent integration. Founded in 2013, the company is based in Palo Alto, California. It maintains a workforce of 501 to 1,000 employees. The platform connects various applications and data sources to support large scale operations.
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