Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals. Our staff members are committed to making a difference in our organization, for our client partners and the patients we serve. We seek individuals with proven competencies and strong character to help lead our organization now and into the future.
How will you make an impact?
You will be matched to projects based on your abilities and current business needs. All projects will have significant strategic and/or operating importance to the business to which they are assigned. Projects may include the following responsibilities:
- Explore and setup local LLM for Life Science / Material Science / Semiconductor use cases
- Design of a security suite against malicious LLM attacks.
- Interact with team to augment current development and integrate new insights in short feedback loop
- Proactively prototype ideas and demo / report out to the team
The intern will explore LoRA fine-tuning and skill distillation, develop a proof of concept, and evaluate it on representative workflows. Comparisons with existing skill-based prompting and cloud frontier models will measure workflow completion, generated-code correctness, execution speed, and computing requirements. The project will also investigate how easily proprietary knowledge can be recovered from model outputs or distributed adapters, assessing whether embedding instructions meaningfully reduces intellectual-property exposure. The expected outcome is a working prototype and practical recommendations on the feasibility, limitations, and deployment tradeoffs of this approach.
How will you get here?
- Graduate student completing a Master's degree in AI / Scientific subject.
- This position will fulfill a 6-12 month University placement within curriculum.
- 0 years of work experience required; previous related internships or apprenticeships preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and strong professional presence.
- Native (or proficient) in English.
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the Country indicated for the opportunity they are applying to by either confirming Citizenship or the right to work.
Thank you for your interest as you consider starting a new career journey with us. As the world leader in serving science, our colleagues develop critical solutions through innovation—and build rewarding careers. Discover their extraordinary [stories](https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/discover-our-stories) and connection to our Mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Their work is a story of purpose. What story will you tell?
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.