Applied Research Intern (Summer 2026)

Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Superhuman

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com.

The Opportunity  

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a motivated PhD student to join our Research team for 3 months in 2026. We seek students who, ideally, are nearing the completion of their Master’s or PhD and have a background in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL). The internship has flexible start dates in summer. 

This intern will contribute to multiple areas of challenging problems in the world of modern LLMs, including writing assistance, personalization, AI detection, and many others. Our Research team actively publishes in leading journals and participates in conferences, all while creating the next generation of features and product offerings for tens of millions of daily active users.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

As an Applied Research Intern, you will help tackle some of Superhuman’s biggest research challenges. In this role, you will:

• Work on an end-to-end research challenge that directly relates to your team’s high-level goals.
• Partner with a mentor to scope, design, and execute on a fully formed project over the duration of your internship.
• Collaborate with a strong team of professionals from whom you can learn from daily.
• Develop state-of-the-art tools for correcting, improving, and enhancing written English using modern LLMs.
• Produce sound experimental results to enable decision-making as we iterate on projects.
• Be results-oriented in the face of ambiguous problems and uncertain outcomes.

Qualifications

• Is available for the entire duration of a twelve-week program.
• Is currently enrolled in and near completion of a Master’s or PhD in natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning, or a related field.
• Has have strong research skills, with a track record of publications in NLP, ML, DL or related fields
• Is proficient in Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Demonstrates strong communication skills, especially as it relates to technical collaboration.
• Is excited to learn!

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply. Superhuman is an equal-opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual identity, or age.
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