Research Scientist Intern

The role

You will conduct novel research in Protocol Learning to publish in tier-1 ML conferences. You will work on problems that stay open as the company pushes toward frontier scale.

What you will do

• Conduct novel research in Protocol Learning with the explicit goal of publishing in tier-1 ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).
• Pick a question that blocks Protocol Learning at scale and answer it.

Required qualifications

• Current PhD candidate with at least one publication in top-tier ML venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).
• Work in a core technical area relevant to frontier models.
• Strong theoretical understanding of deep learning and distributed systems principles.
• Proficiency in PyTorch.
• Experience with large-scale training infrastructure.
• Believe Protocol Learning is the viable third path for collective, trustless, and sovereign AI.
• Professional-level English proficiency (written and spoken).
• Comfortable working across timezones.

About the company

Pluralis Research works on Protocol Learning: training and serving large models in a fully decentralized way on small consumer-grade devices connected via the internet. They are a world-class, deeply technical team of ML researchers backed by Union Square Ventures and other tier-1 investors.