Research Internship - AI Agents for Industrial Applications

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Research Internship - AI Agents for Industrial Applications

Company: Hitachi America Ltd

Division: R&D | Strategic Solution Lab

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Status: Intern, Full-Time

Duration: 3-4 months

The Company

About Hitachi America, Ltd.

Hitachi America, Ltd. is the regional headquarters for Hitachi Group companies in the Americas, overseeing the U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Hitachi Americas has been deeply committed to its Social Innovation Business since its establishment in 1959, addressing society's most pressing challenges through innovative solutions. Leveraging its expertise and resources, Hitachi Americas and its subsidiary companies operate across diverse sectors, including transportation, energy, mobility, industrial manufacturing, healthcare, digital engineering, data analytics and others. Driven by Digital, Green, and Innovation, Hitachi Americas remains at the forefront of pioneering solutions that shape the future. For further details, please visit https://www.hitachi.us/.

Through its Social Innovation Business (SIB) that brings together IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi contributes to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates globally in four sectors - Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries - and the Strategic SIB Business Unit for new growth businesses. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi generates value from integrating data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges. Revenues for FY2024 (ended March 31, 2025) totaled 9,783.3 billion yen, with 618 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 280,000 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.hitachi.com.

Summary

As a Research Intern, you will work alongside experience researchers and engineers to contribute to the development of LLM-integrated multi-agent architectures that process and reason over diverse data types (e.g., sensor streams, structured logs, natural language reports). You will also work on building statistical analysis pipelines and causal inference models to extract actionable insights and enhance system-level decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and prototype LLM-based multi-agent systems tailored to industrial-scale, multimodal data environments.

• Implement statistical analysis tools and causal modeling techniques to evaluate system behavior and uncover hidden dependencies.

• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to apply reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and agentic AI techniques to real-world decision-making tasks.

• Validate model performance and system reliability through rigorous experimentation and data-driven benchmarks.

• Present research outcomes and contribute to publications, reports, and internal documentation.

A Day in the Life

• Work with mentors to define technical goals around agentic workflows and multimodal data integration.

• Explore recent advancements in LLM orchestration frameworks to build interpretable, modular agentic systems.

• Code, test, and refine AI models that combine statistical reasoning with causal inference over diverse industrial datasets.

• Communicate results through presentations and written reports.

Requirements:

Basic Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program inComputer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or other relevant engineering departments.

• Strong programming skills in Python (or similar languages) and some exposure to LangChain, LangGraph, or similar LLM orchestration frameworks.

• Coursework or experience in deep learning and large language models.

• Hands-on experience or coursework in building or integrating LLMs for agentic AI-based services, especially in industrial or engineering domains.

• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (preferably PyTorch).

• Interest or background in power systems, control systems, or power management.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills. Strong aptitude towards building and testing projects.

• Available for a full-time (40h/week) internship for a minimum of 3-4 months starting July/August 2025.

• Currently enrolled in or recent graduate of a master's or higher degree course. Must be able to relocate to the internship location.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or exposure to agentic AI framework.

• Prior research or project experience in AI for physical systems or industrial applications, especially involving LLMs and agentic AI.

• Demonstrated ability to design, implement, or deploy LLM-powered agentic workflows for industrial or engineering use cases.

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

If you are passionate about leveraging deep learning, LLMs, and agentic AI to solve real-world challenges in power and control systems, we encourage you to apply. This internship offers a unique opportunity to grow your technical skills, collaborate with leading experts, and contribute to impactful research.

Our Values

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to any factor that doesn't impact your ability to do the job, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are proud of Japanese heritage, with our values expressed through the Hitachi Spirit:

• Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect

• Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

• Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge

For California only (as required by California's Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act (SB 1162): The expected hourly rate for this position in our California office is $35 per hour. Pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi America's variable pay program, subject to the program's conditions and restrictions.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)-Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job at Hitachi, please send the nature of request and contact information to accommodation@hal.hitachi.com. Queries other than accommodation requests will not be responded to.