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Handshake · 3 months ago

Handshake AI Research Intern, Summer 2026

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeInternship
remoteOnsite
seniorityIntern
money$12,000/mo - $15,000/mo
workcardStart in 2026 Spring

Handshake is building the career network for the AI economy, connecting students, academic institutions, and employers. The Handshake AI Research Intern will work on projects related to LLM post-training, evaluation, and data efficiency, aiming to contribute to publishable research during the internship.

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Responsibilities

Own a scoped research project, mentored by a senior scientist, with the explicit goal of an archive-ready manuscript or top-tier conference submission

Qualification

LLM training experiencePublication track recordIn CSMLNLPPyTorchJAXDeepSpeedPublic speakingTeaching experience

Required

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

Preferred

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)

Company

Handshake

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Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.
dateFounded in 2014
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
http://joinhandshake.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (24)
2024 (14)
2023 (7)
2022 (15)
2021 (6)
2020 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$434M
Key Investors
Notable CapitalEQT VenturesSpark Capital
2022-01-19Series F· $200M
2021-05-12Series E· $80M
2020-10-20Series D· $80M

Leadership Team

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Garrett Lord
CEO - Co-Founder
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Ben Christensen
Co-Founder
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Recent News

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Lightspeed Venture Partners portfolio - Handshake(Will Kohler - Partner, James Ephrati - Partner)
2026-01-14
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Lightspeed Venture Partners portfolio -Handshake(Will Kohler - Partner, James Ephrati - Partner)
2026-01-14
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The CEO of $2 billion AI training startup says that humans will stay involved in data creation for decades
2026-01-05
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