Hunyuan Multimodal Reinforcement Learning Research Intern

Tencent International Service Europe B.V.

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US-California-Palo Alto Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 28, 2026
Job description

Business Unit

Technology Engineering Group (TEG) is responsible for supporting the company and its business groups on technology and operational platforms, as well as the construction and operation of R&D management and data centers, TEG provides users with a full range of customer services. As the operator of the largest networking, devices, and data center in Asia,TEG also leads the Tencent Technology Committee in strengthening infrastructure R&D through internal and distributed open source collaboration, constructing new platforms and supporting business innovation.

What the Role Entails

Responsibilities:

1. Conduct research on RL algorithms for multimodal models, including diffusion models for image, video, and 3D generation, autoregressive models for multimodal understanding, and potentially unified multimodal frameworks.

2. Design and develop RL infrastructure and reward modeling strategies to enable efficient large-scale training, improve training stability, and mitigate reward hacking and related failure modes.

3. Explore next-generation RL paradigms that more directly and effectively learn from environment feedback.

Who We Look For

Requirements:

1. Currently enrolled as a PhD student in Computer Science or a closely related field.

2. Demonstrated strong research capability, with publications in top-tier conferences such as ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH.

3. Strong hands-on programming skills, with solid experience in deep learning system implementation, model training and inference optimization, CPU/GPU acceleration, and distributed training and inference.

4. Prior experience with diffusion models, autoregressive models, and/or text-to-image or text-to-video generation is highly preferred.

5. Participation in ACM/NOIP is a strong plus.

Location State(s)

US-California-Palo Alto

The expected base pay range for this position in the location(s) listed above is $80,168.40 to $124,800.00 per year. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
This position will be eligible for 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked and up to 13 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, full-time interns are also eligible to enroll in the Company-sponsored medical plan.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

About this role

Summary

Research on RL algorithms for multimodal models, developing infrastructure and strategies.

Job title

Hunyuan Multimodal Reinforcement Learning Research Intern

Experience level

PhD student

Industry

technology

Location requirements

remote allowed, based in Palo Alto, California

Salary

$80k–$125k

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

programmingdeep learningRL algorithmsmodel trainingGPU acceleration

Preferred skills

diffusion modelsautoregressive modelstext-to-image/video generationpublications in top conferencesparticipation in ACM/NOIP

Specializations

reinforcement learningmultimodal modelsdiffusion modelsautoregressive modelslarge-scale training
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

California, USA

Remote State

Palo Alto, CA, USA

On-site City