# Academic & PhD Research Intern (AI Research & Systems) — Hanzo Careers

> For PhD candidates, graduate researchers, and student builders working on foundation models, compilers, cryptography, or autonomous agents. Includes free compute & API credits and full access to Hanzo Team for your research. Join the Hanzo team building the open AI cloud.

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# Academic & PhD Research Intern

For PhD candidates, graduate researchers, and student builders working on foundation models, compilers, cryptography, or autonomous agents. Includes free compute & API credits and full access to Hanzo Team for your research.

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## About the Role

Hanzo hosts PhD candidates, graduate students, and academic researchers for research internships and fellowships year-round. You will work directly with our research and systems teams on frontier foundation models (Zen, Kai, Enso), high-throughput inference compilers, zero-knowledge ML, and agent infrastructure — with free API & GPU compute credits, full access to Hanzo Team for your lab or research group, and open-access publication under your own name.

Hanzo builds an open AI cloud — compilers, models, distributed infrastructure, and agent tooling. Our codebases are predominantly open source, and team members operate with high autonomy and end-to-end ownership.

## Key Responsibilities

Conduct original research on foundation model architectures, RLHF/RLAIF post-training, agentic reasoning, or inference compilers.

Run large-scale experiments using complimentary Hanzo Cloud GPU clusters, API credits, and Hanzo Team workspaces.

Publish open-source weights, reproducible benchmarks, and peer-reviewed papers at top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, OSDI, SOSP).

Collaborate directly with Hanzo researchers and engineers to ship research into production open-source repositories.

## What We're Looking For

Currently pursuing a PhD, Master's, or exceptional undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field.

Strong implementation skills in Python, PyTorch, Rust, C++, or Go.

Track record of open-source contributions, preprints, or systems projects.

## Nice to Have

First-author publications or preprints in machine learning, compilers, cryptography, or distributed systems.

Active contributions to Hanzo open-source repositories or the broader open AI ecosystem.

## Why Join Hanzo

Remote-first cultureDistributed globally. We value outcomes over hours spent at a desk.

Public, open-source outputShip work that developers worldwide inspect, clone, and build on.

High agency & ownershipDirect access to leadership and the autonomy to build whole systems.

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