PhD Research Scientist Intern

📋 Description

• Join Canva’s AI team on a live, industry-scale project during a 16-week internship.
• Work with real data, production infra, and strict deadlines.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to shape Canva’s AI-powered experiences.
• Focus on agentic AI: building autonomous systems that reason, plan, and act for millions of users.
• Publish findings to the broader research community when applicable.

🎯 Requirements

• Currently completing a PhD (ideally year 3+).
• Experience with human-AI interaction, conversational agents, or user-modeling research.
• Ability to design, run, and interpret ML experiments with scientific rigor.
• Develop research code for data processing, model training, and evaluation.
• Strong written and verbal communication of technical work.
• Effective collaboration across researchers and engineers.

🎁 Benefits

• Hybrid work model with option to work from home and collaborate in person on campus.
• Intership at Canva with opportunities to impact global products across design, docs, spreadsheets