X, The Moonshot Factory · 10 hours ago
2026 PhD Residency - ML / SWE, Orchestration of Agentic Systems, Early Stage Project
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad
$109K/yr - $150K/yrX, The Moonshot Factory is seeking a PhD Resident to collaborate on innovative projects focused on machine learning and business process optimization. The role involves developing prototypes, applying data science techniques, and engaging with a community of AI and ML residents.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with X project team to experiment and build novel insights to business process optimization and ML-accelerated data ingestion
Rapidly develop prototypes of artificial intelligence, machine learning models applied to business process workflows
Apply the latest in data science techniques to build and deploy data pipelines and exploratory data analysis on large-scale datasets
Develop value chain maps, evaluate costs and revenues to assess and recommend areas in which to de-risk the project
Work cross-functionally with experts across, X, Alphabet, and academia
Engage with the intern community during the program (attending tech talks, colloquium, and learning moonshot thinking), and most importantly HAVE FUN!
Qualification
Required
Active PhD program in Computer Science
Working experience with LLMs, Transformer architectures and data pipelines
Fluent in Python, ML APIs (Tensorflow, Pytorch or JAX)
Very strong analytical skills. Ability to gather and analyze large quantities of information, and turn them into insightful business recommendations
Good at problem stating and problem solving, and turning ambiguous problem spaces into radical solutions. Must be able to break down problems independently
Can do attitude, willing to learn new tools and content to become an effective thought partner with project teams
Excellent communication skills i.e experience writing strategy docs, experience delivering presentations, and a general openness to liaise with senior external partners
Motivated by making the world a better place through technology, and wanting to be part of a team that makes this happen
Preferred
An ability to thrive on ambiguity, setting own goals and effectively delivering them in a fast-changing environment
Adept at influencing without authority, working cross-functionally with different teams in order to drive decision making
Experience in using distributed computing resources, such as GCP, AWS, Azure or HPC clusters
Benefits
Benefits
Company
X, The Moonshot Factory
X, the moonshot factory invents and launches breakthrough technologies and radical solutions. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
Founded in 2010
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Helen Riley
COO/CFO of X, The Moonshot Factory (aka Google X)
Artem Goncharuk
Director of Engineering
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