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AI Software Engineering PhD Intern

IntelPhoenix, AZInternship$170,598.00-$170,602.00 USD annually

The intern will contribute to AI algorithms, frameworks, and software architectures, with potential focus areas including federated learning, image classification, object detection, explainability, and image processing. Responsibilities may span preparing complex datasets, engineering features, improving model accuracy and efficiency, and deploying scalable AI applications with product teams or external collaborators. The role is situated within Intel’s broader AI and hardware-software development environment and is based primarily on site in Phoenix, Arizona, with Hillsboro, Oregon also listed. It is intended for a PhD candidate with strong computer vision or machine learning research experience, solid mathematical foundations, and practical programming skills. Candidates with publications, production deployment experience, semiconductor exposure, or a portfolio of relevant projects would be especially well suited.

Requirements

PhD candidate in AI, computer science, or engineering with at least a 3.0 GPAResearch experience in computer vision, federated learning, image classification, object detection, or related areasKnowledge of explainability, data engineering, feature engineering, and imbalanced or noisy datasetsStrong foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and probabilityProficiency with Python, C++, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and OpenCVFamiliarity with Git, cloud platforms, containers, Docker, and MLOps
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