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

Job Description

Must be enrolled in a university prior to and post internship.
Target Internship Duration: May-Aug or June-Sept 2026
This position is located in office in Redwood Shores, CA or Seattle, WA.

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.

Responsibilities

Intern - Must be enrolled in a university prior to and post internship.
Target Internship Duration: May-Aug or June-Sept 2026

This position is located in office in Redwood Shores, CA or Seattle, WA.

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 help us find new ways to apply emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and blockchain.

Mentors that care: Work with industry-leading professionals and award-winning engineers. On top of your project supervisor, you'll be assigned a peer mentor-a recent hire who can help you navigate the internship experience. You'll also be paired with intern buddies to ensure 360-degree support and engagement.

World-class training: Grow from once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunities and exposure to the latest technologies. You'll benefit from comprehensive on-boarding and job-specific training that will help you get the most out of your time with us. Leadership training will help you build your eye for business.

A fun-filled summer: Enjoy a close-knit, community experience alongside your class of fellow summer interns. Our interns work across the length and breadth of our business but come together for fun weekly events like tech talks, networking, volunteering, and fun social happenings.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from $19.62 to $53.00 per hour; from: $40,800 to $110,240 per annum.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC0

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