Engineer Intern, GenAI Research (Summer Internship)

Why Join This Team Appen’s GenAI research team advances how frontier models are evaluated, improved, and deployed in production environments.

The purpose of this role is to design and implement research and engineering workflows that strengthen model performance, create new benchmarks, and improve production models without regressing on core characteristics.

This role provides hands on ownership of training and evaluation pipelines, benchmark development, and model improvement initiatives that directly influence deployed systems. \n Your Impact• Design and implement a lightweight supervised fine tuning training pipeline using open source LLMs.

What You Bring• Current enrollment in or recent completion of a Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field.

Additional Details• Duration: June-August

We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.

You’ll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego.

You’ll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

About Appen Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years.

We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition.

Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.