Fall 2026

Machine Learning Researcher Intern

Updated on 8/1/2026

Tilde Research

Tilde Research

11-50 employees

Full-stack AI interpretability and control solutions

No salary listed

Palo Alto, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA

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Category
AI & Machine Learning (1)
Required Skills
Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning

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Requirements
  • Experience in deep learning or related research areas.
  • Deep technical expertise in one or more modern machine learning subfields, such as model architecture, optimizers, reinforcement learning, or learning dynamics.
  • Experience with large-scale pre-training or post-training infrastructure for experimentation.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
  • Ability to generate and evaluate research ideas.
  • Ability to learn quickly.
Responsibilities
  • Design, prototype, and optimize novel model architectures.
  • Investigate why models or specific components behave as they do and identify ways to improve them.
  • Curate targeted datasets to elicit and instill specific behaviors or capabilities in models.
  • Collaborate on papers, blog posts, and open-source tools to share insights with the broader community.
  • Train, analyze, and evaluate cutting-edge models while collaborating with researchers and engineers to advance interpretability as a tool for improving performance and control.
Desired Qualifications
  • A strong publication record or thoughtful technical blog posts demonstrating deep technical expertise in a modern machine learning subfield.

Tilde Research provides full-stack interpretability tools for AI systems, including general interpreter models and control mechanisms to guide how features flow through inference pipelines. These tools help human experts collaborate with AI by aligning model decisions with human input and existing fine-tuning methods. The approach focuses on deployment-time control and orchestration, adding a layer of insight that sits between raw prompts and model outputs. The goal is safer, more understandable AI that can handle complex tasks within standard deployment workflows.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2024

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • SSAEs enable unsupervised interpretability and concept steering from embeddings.
  • Khosla Ventures and OpenAI/Anthropic backers provide funding and expertise.
  • Moonshot lab advances mechanistic interpretability across full AI stack.

What critics are saying

  • Anthropic's tracing thoughts outpaces Tilde's circuit analyses in 6-12 months.
  • Tilde.ai's 30-year multilingual dominance confuses branding in 3-6 months.
  • EU AI Act Phase 2 commoditizes proprietary tools in 12-18 months.

What makes Tilde Research unique

  • Activault reduces activation storage costs 4-8x using S3 for petabyte-scale datasets.
  • Telescope project traces feature emergence to guide model architecture decisions.
  • Full-stack tools include interpreter models and control for feature orchestration.

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