AI Research Internship

In This Position You Will:
Be part of Kitware's overall mission of 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. Develop robust solutions in the various areas of AI, including Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision Language Models (VLMs), Foundation Models, etc. Develop algorithms to solve interesting, challenging technical problems: object detection, classification, and tracking; video/image understanding and search; 3D reconstruction from aerial imagery; reasoning and alignment in decision-making; threat detection and decision alignment in cybersecurity; and many more.

Required Qualifications:
Ph.D. students 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 related tools. Candidates should include a list of publications as part of their resume/CV. Due to contractual requirements, only U.S. citizens will be considered for this position. This is an on-site position with the expectation of 5 days/week in office.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with multiple large multimodal AI models, including image, text, and speech modalities. Publication history and desire to publish in premier academic conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, etc. Experience and interest in contributing to open source software community projects.