Summer Engineering Intern (Ph.D candidate required

at Riverbed Technology, Inc in Champaign, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Summer Engineering Intern (Ph.D candidate required) - AI Project
Job Locations

US-IL-Champaign

Category 
Engineering  

Req No. 
2024-7452
Riverbed. Empower the Experience

Riverbed, the leader in AI observability, helps organizations optimize their user's experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed's open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improves IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally - including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 - we are empowering next-generation digital experiences. 

Position

Position: Summer Engineering Intern (Ph.D candidate required) - AI Project
Duration: Full-time Summer program, estimated time of availability: 8 - 10 weeks
Location: Champaign office
Requirements: Ph.D candidate
Compensation: Paid

What you will do

Riverbed Acceleration Business Research Project: Summer 2024:
Summary:
Area: Research into leveraging network optimization for Artificial Intelligence at the edge workflow for increased performance and security.

Candidate Key areas of understanding: Large Language Models, AI training, hybrid AI techniques, Cloud AI, Edge device AI, AI Federated Learning

What makes you an ideal candidate

We are interested in investigating if there are ways to leverage network optimization strategies to help enable AI at the Edge. The research project includes investigating how hybrid AI scenarios with Federated Learning techniques could be optimized for performance and security using network optimizations.

We are interested in scenarios using a hybrid technique where some of the processing is done locally and some in the cloud.
Hybrid AI also allows for devices and cloud to run models concurrently - with devices running 'light' versions of the model for low latency while the cloud processes multiple tokens of the 'full' model in parallel and corrects the device answers if needed.

We are interested in researching how much data is being transferred and if network optimizations such as scalable data referencing (SDR) be leveraged for reducing latency.
What we offer

Our employee benefits including flexible workplace policies, employee resource groups, learning and development resources, career progression pathways, and community engagement initiatives are some of the reasons why we have had great success in bringing in new talent. In addition, our global employee wellness programs are crafted to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of our employees.
Benefits & Perks vary by Country. 

About Riverbed

With a 20-year history of innovation, Riverbed is agile, yet proven, and we are disrupting the market with differentiated solutions that enable our customers to deliver secure, seamless digital experiences and accelerate enterprise performance While we are a 'customer-first' company, we are all about our people with a shared commitment to creating a global impact. We bring our best selves to work and pursue excellence, trust, and respect for one another. We welcome diversity and value and encourage transparency and open communication throughout the company. We strive to be an inclusive, fair, and enjoyable workplace for our people globally and care about their wellbeing. We are committed to our people, partners, and customers while supporting the communities where we work and live. It's the Power of WE that binds us together.
We want people of all backgrounds to see themselves represented and included in our work, so we actively seek to diversify our team and bring more voices to the table. We understand that when people can be themselves, more is possible. We would love to have more people on board to join us on our journey to be better every day! So, come speak with us about career possibilities at Riverbed.
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Riverbed is proud to be an affirmative action (AA) and equal employment opportunities (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.