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Research Intern (Vision / VLM)

abakaai
Palo Alto, CA Intern
POSTED ON 12/4/2025 CLOSED ON 2/3/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Intern (Vision / VLM) position at abakaai?

Our recent related work: EditReward (submitted to ICLR '26)

Responsibilities

  • Design workflows to curate high-quality image editing and generation datasets for controllable diffusion and instruction tuning.

  • Conduct evaluations of vision-language models, including image understanding, caption alignment, and editing precision.

  • Assist in the training and evaluation of diffusion models or reward models.

  • Explore visual reasoning datasets that bridge images and text prompts.

Qualifications

  • Strong background in computer science, data engineering, artificial intelligence, or related fields, with hands-on experience in large-scale vision data systems.

  • 1 years of experience in computer vision or multimodal machine learning (e.g., PyTorch, Diffusers, CLIP, BLIP, etc.).

  • Solid understanding of image-text alignment and latent-space editing.

  • (Preferred) Familiarity with aesthetic models, diffusion-based editing, vision-language modeling (VLM), or visual question answering (VQA) tasks.

  • (Preferred) Relevant publications in top conferences.

 
 
 
 

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