Loon · 1 month ago
2026 PhD Residency - ML / SWE, Orchestration of Agentic Systems, Early Stage Project
Mountain View, CA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$109K/yr - $150K/yrLoon is a company that focuses on innovative technologies, and they are seeking an intern for their AI Residency program. The role involves collaborating on machine learning projects, developing prototypes, and applying data science techniques to optimize business processes.
AerospaceInformation ServicesInternetTelecommunicationsTravel
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
Get paid competitively
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Company
Loon
Loon is a network of high altitude balloons used to provide stable internet coverage on the ground. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
Founded in 2011
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2021 (9)
2020 (12)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$125MKey Investors
HAPSMobile
2019-04-25Undisclosed· $125M
Recent News
2025-10-31
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