Applied Research Intern, Proactive Intelligence & Customer World Models (phd / Graduate Co-op)

This is a research intern role within Block's Apollo team, focusing on building proactive intelligence and customer world models. The intern will own a research problem end-to-end, from framing to shipping production systems, working at the intersection of representation learning, foundation models, and reinforcement learning.

Skills and focus areas

• representation learning
• foundation models
• reinforcement learning
• causal reasoning
• agentic systems
• product intelligence
• experimental design
• research
• problem framing
• method development
• experimentation
• publishing findings