About the Role
As an Applied AI Intern, you’ll help drive our research agenda towards advancing AI model capabilities for real-world healthcare tasks. You'll build novel evals and benchmarks to identify capability gaps in current models, publish academic papers, and post-train models to push the SOTA while staying grounded to the demonstrated needs of our healthcare partners.
Responsibilities
- Develop novel evals, RL environments, and benchmarks to reflect real-world healthcare workflows
- Develop, train, and evaluate computer-use agents for complex healthcare interfaces
- Build and maintain data pipelines to transform raw human data into high-quality training and evaluation assets
- Write and publish papers in academic conferences
- Work across the stack: models, tooling, infra, product, and internal workflows
Requirements
- Published at 1+ first-author papers in a top ML conference (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc.)
- Trained a 1B+ param model from scratch
- Come from a research background (preference for MS or PhD) in at least one of these fields: Computer-Use Agents, Vision-Language Models, Computer Vision, Robotics, RL
- Have significant experience with PyTorch, HuggingFace, or similar libraries
- Are high-agency and comfortable owning large, ambiguous problem spaces
- Are comfortable working long hours in a high-intensity, early-stage environment
- Are excited to be on-site in SF and collaborate closely with a small team
- Are interested in healthcare as an application (prior background not necessary)
- Must be in-person in SF for the duration of the internship
- Must be authorized to work in the US (we support eVerify)
- Can start within the next month
Skills
- PyTorch
- HuggingFace
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- On-site
- Internship
Experience Level
- Intern
Education Level
- MS or PhD preferred
About the Company
- Kinetic Systems is an early-stage startup working at the intersection of computer-use agents, human data, and healthcare.
- Our mission is to advance the capabilities of frontier AI models on economically meaningful healthcare tasks by building novel datasets, environments, and models.
- We were founded in 2025 out of the Stanford PhD program and backed by Tier 1 VCs.
