{"id":12685,"date":"2026-08-25T15:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/?post_type=job&#038;p=12685"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:27:46","slug":"research-internship-for-phd-students","status":"publish","type":"job","link":"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/de\/job\/research-internship-for-phd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Research internship for PhD students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.feyer.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feyer<\/a>&nbsp;is building algorithms that can discover new optical, quantum, and other physical technologies. For this they are building AI models that learn from differentiable physics simulators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their design methods, built on differentiable physics simulators, have already discovered new experiments that were built and tested in laboratories. With funding from SPRIND\u2019s Next Frontier AI Challenge, they are now building a new generation of optimizers for physics design.<br>Most optimizers use only loss values and local gradients. The Neural Explorer also receives the simulator\u2019s computational graph, including its topology, operations, intermediate values and gradients. It learns to propose larger moves that may escape local optima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research topics<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Graph neural architectures and representations for large JAX computational graphs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learned optimizers, non-local search and combinations of neural and classical methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scalable data generation, GPU training and rigorous equal-compute benchmarks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who you are<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An enrolled PhD researcher in ML, optimization, scientific computing, differentiable programming or a related field<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A careful researcher who can design clear experiments for open-ended questions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Excellent Python skills; experience with JAX or a comparable autodiff stack<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comfort working independently in a small research team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Physics expertise is welcome, but not required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duration: 3 to 6 months<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start: Flexible \/ ideally ASAP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location: T\u00fcbingen AI Center or Munich Urban Colab<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Format: Paid, 80% to full-time internship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Application<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Send your CV, a short note on fit, preferred dates and desired duration to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:careers@feyer.ai\">careers@feyer.ai<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For questions, contact&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:klimesch.jonathan@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">klimesch.jonathan@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cv-tag":[],"job_category":[368],"job-type":[434],"user-group":[247],"class_list":["post-12685","job","type-job","status-publish","hentry","job_category-external","job-type-internship","user-group-phd-student"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Research internship for PhD students - Cyber Valley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/de\/job\/research-internship-for-phd-students\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research internship for PhD students - Cyber Valley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Feyer&nbsp;is building algorithms that can discover new optical, quantum, and other physical technologies. 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