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Handshake is a San Francisco, California-based company that has created a platform to provide opportunities for talented students seeking to be professionals in a meaningful career

Student Researcher - Fall 2026

Location

United States

Posted

60 days ago

Salary

$7K - $13K / month

Seniority

Mid Level

No structured requirement data.

Job Description

Student Researcher - Fall 2026

Handshake

About Handshake Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 50), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. This unique value is leading to unparalleled growth; in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale. Why join Handshake now: - Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel - Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions - Join a team with leadership from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, among others - Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue About the Role Handshake AI builds the data engines that power the next generation of large language models. Our research team works at the intersection of cutting-edge model post-training, rigorous evaluation, and data efficiency. Join us for a Student Researcher engagement this fall where your work can ship directly into our production stack and become a publishable research contribution. The role can take place full time in person in San Francisco or potentially part time remote.) The target window of time is September - December 2026. Projects You Could Tackle - LLM Post-Training: Novel RLHF / GRPO pipelines, instruction-following refinements, reasoning-trace supervision. - LLM Evaluation: New multilingual, long-horizon, or domain-specific benchmarks; automatic vs. human preference studies; robustness diagnostics. - Data Efficiency: Active-learning loops, data value estimation, synthetic data generation, and low-resource fine-tuning strategies. Each intern owns a scoped research project, mentored by a senior scientist, with the explicit goal of an archive-ready manuscript or top-tier conference submission. Desired Capabilities - Current PhD student in CS, ML, NLP, or related field. - Publication track record at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, etc.). - Hands-on experience training and experimenting with LLMs (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, DeepSpeed, distributed training stacks). - Strong empirical rigor and a passion for open-ended AI questions. Extra Credit - Prior work on RLHF, evaluation tooling, or data selection methods. - Contributions to open-source LLM frameworks. - Public speaking or teaching experience (we often host internal reading groups).

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