Hugging Face 2023 Internship Program

Hugging Face is opening applications for its 2023 internship program to recruit contributors for cutting-edge AI and machine learning projects. The program aims to democratize responsible machine learning by centering marginalized communities in the research process.

Available Internship Positions

Hugging Face is offering internships across three primary categories: Open Source, Science, and specialized tooling/impact roles.

Open Source Team

Interns in the Open Source team work alongside library maintainers on the following projects:

  • Accelerate Internship: Focused on leading the integration of new and impactful features within the Accelerate library.
  • Text to Speech Internship: Focused on text-to-speech reproduction.

Science Team

Science team positions focus on reinforcement learning and large language model (LLM) infrastructure:

  • Embodied AI Internship: Working on reinforcement learning within simulators.
  • Fast Distributed Training Framework Internship: Developing a framework for the flexible distributed training of large language models.
  • Datasets for LLMs Internship: Building tools and datasets required to train next-generation large language models.

Other Specialized Roles

Additional roles focus on the intersection of AI, society, and creativity:

  • Social Impact Evaluation Internship: Creating a technical framework to assess the overall social impact of generative ML models.
  • AI Art Tooling Internship: Developing tools to empower artists and bridge the gap between AI and the art world.

Application Process and Requirements

Candidates can apply directly through the Hugging Face job portal. The application process requires the completion of a short submission at the end of the form, which necessitates the creation of a Hugging Face account.

Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

Hugging Face explicitly encourages proposals from individuals whose personal experiences reflect marginalized identities, including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQ+ people. The organization states that centering these communities is essential to prevent the progress of AI from exacerbating existing societal disparities. Hugging Face operates as an equal opportunity employer, prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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