LLM Research Intern

About ProCogia:  

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Our clients operate in high-stakes, highly regulated industries (such as telecom, financial services, life sciences, and more), where precision, compliance, and measurable outcomes are non-negotiable. We partner with them by embedding expert data science, engineering, and AI talent directly into projects that matter.

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When you join ProCogia, you’ll find a supportive, growth-driven environment where your ideas are welcomed, and your development is prioritized. We offer competitive salaries, generous benefits and perks for personal and professional development.  

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Job Title:  LLM Research Intern  

Job Summary  

Reporting directly to the AI Solutions Specialist, ProCogia is looking for a curious and driven  LLM Research Intern to join our team in Vancouver, BC. In this role, you will work alongside our data science and AI engineering teams to research, experiment with, and evaluate large language models for real-world client applications. You'll have the opportunity to dig into the latest developments in generative AI, from prompt engineering and fine-tuning to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and model evaluation, while contributing to meaningful projects that push the boundaries of what's possible with LLMs.  

This is a hands-on internship designed for someone who is passionate about NLP and AI research, eager to bridge the gap between cutting-edge academic work and practical implementation, and excited to grow in a collaborative, fast-paced consulting environment.  

This is an in-person role, 40 hours/week, based in our beautiful downtown Vancouver office. If the co-op is available in July, we would like them to start early and work for part of the summer, as well as the defined co-op term from September-December.

Responsibilities  

• Assess client-specific data assets and determine the appropriate adaptation strategy — continued pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, or a combination — based on the domain, data volume, and use case requirements  

• Curate, clean, structure, and prepare domain-specific datasets from raw client data for use in model training pipelines  

• Fine-tune large language models in the 70B–100B+ parameter range using techniques such as LoRA, QLoRA, and multi-adapter patterns  

• Perform continued pretraining on open-weight models (Qwen, Llama, and related ecosystems) to embed domain knowledge directly into model weights  

• Manage distributed training workflows across multi-node GPU clusters  

• Design and execute evaluation frameworks to validate domain adaptation quality, factual grounding, and model behavior  

• Support RAG system development where applicable, including vector database integration, chunking strategies, and reranking pipelines  

• Contribute to inference optimization and deployment pipeline integration  

Required Qualifications  

• Currently enrolled in or recently completed a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field  

• Demonstrated hands-on experience fine-tuning large language models, supported by concrete project work, research, or open-source contributions  

• Experience with frontier-scale models (100B+ parameters) or distributed training across multi-node GPU clusters  

• Familiarity with parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods (LoRA, QLoRA) and open-weight model architectures  

• Experience with data curation and preparation workflows for LLM training, including cleaning, formatting, deduplication, and quality filtering  

• Proficiency in Python-based ML frameworks such as PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, DeepSpeed, or FSDP  

• Understanding of training compute, memory constraints, and inference trade-offs at scale  

Nice to Have  

• Familiarity with RAG architectures or production inference serving frameworks (vLLM, TGI, TensorRT-LLM) 

• Experience in low-resource or multilingual NLP settings  

• Relevant publications, open-source contributions, or documented projects involving LLM training.  

Compensation  

• $23/hour  

ProCogia is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a  diverse and inclusive workspace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for  employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual  orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.  

ProCogia is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workspace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.