Company Description

　　The Bosch Research and Technology Center North America with offices in Sunnyvale, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cambridge, Massachusetts is a part of the global Bosch Group (www.bosch.com), a company with over 70-billion-euro revenue, 400,000 employees worldwide, a very diverse product portfolio, and a history spanning over 125 years. The Research and Technology Center North America (RTC-NA) is dedicated to providing technologies and system solutions for various Bosch business fields, primarily in the field of artificial intelligence, energy technologies, internet technologies, circuit design, semiconductors and wireless, as well as advanced MEMS design.

　　As a part of the global research, our AI research in Silicon Valley focuses on Foundation Models, Big Data Visual Analytics, Explainable AI (XAI), Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Cloud Robotics, Data Science, AI Platform, Time-series Analysis. We develop scalable, intelligent, and trustworthy AIoT solutions to enable inspiring UX for Bosch products and services in application areas such as automated driving, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), robotics, smart manufacturing, enterprise AI, health care, smart home and building solutions.

　　As a part of our global research unit, our Natural Language Processing group is responsible for advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), for industry applications. Our mission is to develop cutting-edge NLP solutions that drive innovation, solve complex industry problems, and shape the future user experience of Bosch products for both internal and external users in the fields of AI agent, information retrieval, question answering, software engineering assistance, and etc. We work with internal partners at various Bosch business units to transfer our ideas and solutions into future products. We also actively collaborate with leading groups in academia and industry to promote research ideas and publish research findings in internationally renowned conferences and journals, e.g., ACL, EMNLP, ISWC, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICASSP.

　　Job Description

　　Conduct research on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Model (LLM) and Foundation Models to address academic and industrial challenges in AI fields.

　　Collaborate with mentors and other colleagues to integrate the developed methods into prototype systems for Bosch applications such as AI agents, information retrieval, question answering, software engineering assistance, information extraction, etc.

　　Summarize research findings in high-quality NLP conference papers (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, AAAI) and/or patent submissions.

　　Qualifications

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Ph.D. in Computer Science or Engineering (must be a current student or recent graduate – less than 1 year).

　　Strong research experience in natural language processing, machine learning, and related fields.

　　Hands-on experience on large language models, including training, fine-tuning, and prompting.

　　Hands-on experience on state-of-the-art NLP / AI libraries and toolkits

　　Good communication and team-working skills

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Publication record in top NLP or machine learning venues (e. g. ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, NAACL, TACL).

　　R&D experiences on LLM based agents, task planning / decomposition, and reasoning.

　　R&D experiences on retrieval-augmented generation.

　　R&D experiences on multi-modal foundation models.

　　R&D experiences on reinforcement learning

　　Additional Information

　　The U.S. base salary range for this intern position is $43.00-$66.00 per hour. Within the range, individual pay is determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, type of degree, work experience and job knowledge, complexity of the role, type of position, job location, etc. Your Hiring Manager can share more details about the specific salary range for this position during the interview process.

　　By choice, we are committed to a diverse workforce - EOE/Protected Veteran/Disabled.

　　BOSCH is a proud supporter of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics)

　　FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)

　　AWIM (A World In Motion)