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Research Intern, Agent RL Training

NewsBreak · Mountain View, California, United States

Posted about 3 months ago · $35- $50

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
82 days
NewsBreak's roles stay open a median of 81 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
15% of NewsBreak's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at NewsBreak
high
47 stale, 0 reposted of 55 open
Hiring momentum
61 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from NewsBreak's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for NewsBreak.

About this role

As a Research Intern on the Agent RL Training team at NewsBreak, you will work closely with a mentor to explore the application of large language models (LLMs) to enhance the company's products. Your responsibilities will include conducting experiments, designing training datasets, and contributing to research publications. This role requires a hands-on approach and a strong commitment to advancing research in the field.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
5/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of NewsBreak as an employer.

What you need

  • Highly motivated and committed: willing to put in extra hours when needed to push projects across the finish line
  • Genuine passion for research: you read papers for fun, tinker with models on weekends, and care deeply about advancing the field
  • Independently capable of end-to-end model SFT: with basic understanding of RL-based post-training methods (RLHF, DPO, PPO, GRPO, etc.)
  • Excellent taste in model behavior: able to reason about what 'good' looks like across user-facing domains and articulate why
  • Strong Python and PyTorch skills

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
  • Experience building synthetic data pipelines for agent training
  • Familiarity with open-source RL frameworks: TRL, OpenRLHF, veRL/vLLM

What you get

  • Hourly Pay: $35 - $50
  • Potential eligibility for discretionary bonus and options

Worth weighing

  • Onsite position in Mountain View, CA
  • No specific mention of remote work options
  • Research focus may require significant independent initiative and self-direction

Summarised from NewsBreak's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by NewsBreak on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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