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Applied Research Intern, Proactive Intelligence & Customer World Models (PhD / Graduate Co-op)
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Team: Apollo — Block Applied R&D Location: Remote (US / Canada) Duration: Fall/Winter 2026 co-op — 8 months, flexible start September 2026 Level: Graduate student (MS or PhD, returning to your program after the co-op) About Apollo Apollo leads Block's efforts to build the Customer World Model (CWM) : a continuously evolving representation of each customer's goals, context, history, constraints, and likely future needs. The CWM powers proactive intelligence across Block's ecosystem. Instead of customers navigating products in search of features, intelligence observes their world, understands what matters, anticipates what comes next, and initiates actions on their behalf. We believe the next generation of AI products will not be defined by chat interfaces or isolated agents. They will be defined by rich world models that enable systems to reason over a customer's evolving state, make bett
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About the role We're hiring a small cohort of graduate research interns to help build the foundations of proactive intelligence; Required Currently enrolled in an MS or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related field, and returning to that program after the co-op
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Block
Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
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