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Hardware Machine Learning PhD Research Internship

IMC·Chicago, United States·Posted 23 September 2026

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We are deploying machine learning directly onto custom hardware – and we want you to help drive it forward. This PhD internship is an opportunity to work on research that has direct impact on IMC's work tackling open problems at the frontier of low-latency ML inference and hardware acceleration. You'll work alongside IMC engineers in one of the most demanding low-latency computing environments in the world. You'll own a focused research project from start to finish, present your findings to the team, and leave behind a prototype or benchmark that we can build on. Your Core Responsibilities Architect and develop an ML focused research project based on real-world use cases Work hands-on with hardware engineers to implement, verify, and deploy ML inference solutions Track and evaluate emerging research in neural architecture search, machine learning systems and quantization methods, and determine what translates to measurable improvements in our systems Present your project to the team, deepening our collective understanding of an area of ML acceleration Gain hardware design fundamentals from skilled RTL developers and learn how they apply to our industry Build skills to evaluate…

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