Applied AI Research Intern

Remote, Spain·Full-time·Added 2 months ago

Alinia AI

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What they offer

Full-time hours
Per the ad.
Hybrid
Office and home days — the ad has the split.

What they ask for

Have the right to work in Spain
Alinia AI doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.
Work in English
English is required, per the ad.
Be near Spain for hybrid days
No relocation package mentioned.

The role

About Alinia

We are an early-stage AI startup on a mission to enable the safe and compliant deployment of AI Agents in regulated industries, worldwide, through our Regulatory Guardrails & Auditing platform. We ensure conversational AI agents adhere to companies' business policies and regulations at scale, like Investment Guard.

We envision a future where compliance is encoded in any autonomous system, steered by human experts. The goal is to augment compliance experts' capabilities, empowering them to become key enablers in the deployment of AI Agents in the most critical scenarios at scale.

Co-founders Ari and Carlos come from leading ML platform at Twitter and LLM governance at Hugging Face.

At Alinia, our Applied AI Research Interns play a pivotal role in exploring new possibilities and capabilities for Alinia's Alignment Platform. This role demands a scientific mindset, a technical understanding of LLMs, and LLM development experience. We expect our interns to be self-motivated, action-oriented and hands-on. During the internship, interns will be expected to design, execute, and deliver their solutions to key challenges our customers encounter with the safe and responsible deployment of LLM applications. However, we don't expect our interns to work alone. A mentor will be assigned throughout the internship to provide guidance, planning, and support. Interns will also be expected to participate in weekly meetings where they will share progress and present results. This role is designed for students who are ready to apply their expertise actively and decisively within a dynamic development environment.

Role Overview

Developing a robust and holistic alignment strategy and platform that combines state-of-the-art evaluation and optimization techniques, Responsible AI best practices and the realities of running a business is a complex task with applied research at the center.

As an Applied AI Research Intern at Alinia, you will experimentally design, develop, evaluate, and execute a project to support the training, evaluation, or use of Large Language Model (LLM)-based guardrails. Example projects include, but are not limited to:

The development of a robust, automated approach to quantitatively measure synthetically-generated data quality.
The incorporation of explanations for our LLM guardrails to provide post-hoc rationales for why content was blocked.
Pruning and quantization of LLMs without sacrificing out-of-distribution performance.

We strive to create intern projects that provide the right mix of problem solving, learning, and real-world application as possible while also aligning with the student's interests. As a member of a small team, this role presents a unique opportunity to make direct contributions to a real-world product. Your work will directly shape the art of the possible for our customers and their clients.

Minimum Qualifications

MS student in Computer Science, AI, Linguistics, or a related field.
Proven experience in LLMs, ML, or NLP.
At least one publication in reputable AI, ethics, or machine learning conferences and journals.
Strong programming skills in Python.
Experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX.
Demonstrated knowledge and practical experience in LLM training (Please note: this is a strict requirement for the position).

Preferred Qualifications

PhD student in Computer Science, AI, Linguistics, or a related field.
Contributions to open-source projects or public datasets in the field of AI.
First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences.
Experience with synthetic data generation, LLM as a judge frameworks, LLM post-training.
Experience with explainable AI (XAI).

Why Join Alinia?

Cutting-edge tech: Work on one of the most important challenges in AI-alignment, safety, and trust
Flexible work: Hybrid or remote work, with preference for CET time zone
Collaborative culture: Small, experienced, mission-driven team
Impact: Directly shape the technical foundation of an AI governance platform adopted by enterprises

About Alinia AI

Alinia AI is an AI software company that provides a platform for making AI systems compliant by design, offering products for evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring. The company focuses on regulation-informed control layers to help enterprises deploy AI assistants at scale, with particular emphasis on financial services, as evidenced by testimonials from Banco Santander and Origin Financial. Their research includes a RAG Guard model for detecting hallucinations and irrelevance, benchmarked against industry leaders like GPT-4o-mini, IBM Granite, and AWS Bedrock.

Alinia AI has a presence in Barcelona, Spain, where it is hiring for roles such as Applied AI Research Intern, Applied Research Scientist, Back-End Engineer, and Machine Learning Engineer. The company's work culture emphasizes regulatory compliance and AI safety, making it relevant for international professionals interested in AI governance, compliance, and applied research. However, specific details about their Spain office size, work culture, or relocation support are not provided in the available evidence.

Industry: AI Software
In Spain: Barcelona
Website: alinia.ai

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Alinia AI has job openings in Barcelona, Spain, including roles for Applied AI Research Intern, Applied Research Scientist, Back-End Engineer, and Machine Learning Engineer.
The company focuses on AI compliance and regulation, with products for evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring, which may appeal to professionals interested in AI governance and safety.
Alinia AI's research includes a multilingual RAG Guard model for detecting hallucinations, tested across six languages and benchmarked against industry leaders like GPT-4o-mini, IBM Granite, and AWS Bedrock.
The company counts major financial institutions like Banco Santander and Origin Financial among its clients, indicating a strong focus on the finance sector.
Alinia AI offers a careers page on their official website, suggesting they actively recruit for technical and research positions.

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