Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! Figma’s Data Science team partners across product, engineering, design, marketing, sales, and operations to help Figma make better decisions with data. As a PhD Data Science Intern, you’ll bring rigorous research training to some of Figma’s most important and open-ended questions, from researching emerging product and user behaviors and Figma’s broader ecosystem to developing new measurement methodologies, applying causal inference or machine learning, and building analytical systems. You’ll own a data science project end-to-end: from framing the question and methodology to translating findings into insights that influence Figma’s products, strategy, or data science practices; with the potential to continue toward publication after the internship. This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York hub. What you’ll do at Figma: Partner with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous product, platform, or business questions into well-defined data science problems Analyze user, product, or business data to uncover insights and recommend actions Design and evaluate experiments, metrics, statistical or machine learning models, and analytical frameworks Communicate assumptions, tradeoffs, limitations, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical partners Own a focused internship project end-to-end, from problem framing and technical execution through final recommendations, with potential to continue toward publication after the internship We’d love to hear from you if you h
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Role Overview As a Research Intern in the Model Shaping team, you will work on one or more of the following areas: Advanced post-training methods across supervised learning, preference optimization, and reinforcement learning New techniques and systems for efficient training of neural networks (e.g., distributed training, algorithmic improvements, optimization methods) Robust and reliable evaluation of foundation model capabilities The Model Shaping team at Together AI works on products and research for tailoring open foundation models to downstream applications. We build services that allow machine learning developers to choose the best models for their tasks and further improve these models using domain-specific data. In addition to that, we develop new methods for more efficient model training and evaluation, drawing inspiration from a broad spectrum of ideas across machine learning,
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