GenAI PhD Applied Scientist Intern - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

The Program:

Our future success depends on hiring world-class, early in career talent who are looking to power next-generation services and solutions. We are hiring PhD students with a diverse set of skills and experiences to work in and across multiple teams within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure organization. Our program is intended to enhance your overall learning experience, help build your network, and accelerate your opportunity to make an impact. 

The Team: 

Oracle Generative AI Service is an exciting team in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We are delivering innovative services at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure. In Generative AI Service team, you will build and operate massive-scale cloud services leveraging state of art machine learning technologies. We are committed to providing the best in cloud products to meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s most challenging problems.

The Oracle Cloud infrastructure business is growing at an incredible 52% annually. This kind of growth results from Oracle’s strong legacy in helping organizations worldwide tackle their most complex challenges and its reputation for performance, reliability and security.

Join an outstanding team of researchers to advance the state-of-the-art in areas such as:

• Generative AI Applications
• Agentic Platforms
• Reasoning and Planning
• Retrieval Augmented Generation
• Generative AI Evaluation
• Responsible AI
• Models’ Verticalization
• NL2Code, NL2SQL
• Multimodal GenAI

The Company:

Oracle is the world’s leading provider of business software. With a presence in over 175 countries, we are one of the biggest technology companies on the planet. We're using innovative emerging technologies to tackle real-world problems today. From advancing energy efficiency to reimagining online commerce, the work we do is not only transforming the world of business—it's helping advance governments, power nonprofits, and giving billions of people the tools they need to outpace change. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit us at oracle.com. 

Intern - Must be enrolled in a university prior to and post internship. 
Target Internship Duration: May-Aug or June-Sept 2026
Locations: this position is fully in office in a hub location (Redwood Shores, Seattle). Hub locations are subject to change based on business needs.

What You’ll Do:

As a GenAI Research Intern in Generative AI Service team, you will be leading the effort of building distributed, scalable, high-performance AI model training and serving systems in partnership with our applied scientists and software engineers. You will dive deep into model structure to optimize model performance and scalability. You will build state of art systems with cutting-edge technologies in this fast evolving area. you will play a key role in shaping the future of Generative AI at Oracle, with an emphasis on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multi-modality Models. Your contributions will be pivotal in delivering our new Generative AI-powered services for large scale enterprise customers.

What You’ll Bring: (Objective Minimum Qualifications)

To be considered for a GenAI Research intern position in the OCI organization, you must possess the Objective Minimum Qualifications (OMQs) below. Please ensure that your application clearly indicates that you meet these OMQs, either on your resume and/or by uploading additional documents such as a transcript. 

• Will be enrolled in a PhD degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or related technical field during the 2025-2026 school year
• Experience in one area of computer science (e.g., Natural Language Understanding, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Algorithmic Foundations of Optimization, Data Science, or similar areas).
• Strong publication record, including as a lead author or reviewer, in top-tier journals or conferences.
• Expected Graduation Date of May 2027 or beyond. 
• Reside in the United States and/or attend a university in the US
• Authorized to work in the US in 2026

Other Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum GPA of 3.0

What We’ll Give You:

High-impact projects: You’ll get the opportunity to directly influence our cutting-edge products. Got a question or idea? Voice it. Your curiosity could help advance our next-generation cloud applications and he