Research Fellow Intern

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We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences - the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.

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An exciting internship opportunity to make an immediate contribution to AMD's next generation of technology innovations awaits you We have a multifaceted, high-energy work environment filled with a diverse group of employees, and we provide outstanding opportunities for developing your career. During your internship, our programs provide the opportunity to collaborate with AMD leaders, receive one-on-one mentorship, attend amazing networking events, and much more. Being part of AMD means receiving hands-on experience that will give you a competitive edge. Together We Advance your career

The Role
We are seeking highly motivated Machine Learning intern/co-op to join our team. In this role -

• We will involve you in training Generative AI models (involving Large Language models (LLMs), vision-language or large multimodal models (LMMs) and text-to-image/videos models) on our GPU clusters
• Your responsibility will include doing research on improving training speed, memory consumption and compute usage.
• Your work will involve doing ablations over various types of foundation model architectures, data sampling techniques, training recipes, etc.
• We will help you learn innovative new technologies in this field
• You get to publish work in top AI/ML conferences

Who We Are Looking For

• Strong development and debugging skills in Python
• Experience in deep learning frameworks (like PyTorch) and distributed training tools (like DeepSpeed or FSDP)
• Experience with instruction following & alignment methods as well as parameter efficient fine-tuning techniques (like LoRA)
• Fundamental understanding of transformers and other recent architecture types
• Knowledge about the latest research done in at least one of the three above verticals - LLMs, LMMs, text-to-images/videos models
• Good communication and problem-solving skills
• Preference will be given to candidates with publications but not necessary
• Pursuing advanced degree (MS or PhD) in machine learning, computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field in top Indian universities. Exceptional folks pursuing Bachelor's degree may also be considered.
• Passion to learn and try out new things.

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