Research Scientist Intern (PhD)
Prior Labs · Berlin
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Job description
Who we are
Foundation models transformed text and images. Structured data - the largest and most consequential data format in the world - stayed untouched, until now. What LLMs did for language, we're doing for tables.
We pioneered tabular foundation models: TabPFN v2 was a Nature cover story, has passed 3.5M+ downloads and 7,500+ GitHub stars, and runs in production from detecting lung disease with Oxford Cancer Analytics to preventing train failures with Hitachi . The hardest problems - millions of rows, real-time inference, entirely new modalities - are still open, and no one else is working on them at this level.
We're a small, highly selective team of 40+ with backgrounds from Google, DeepMind, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Jane Street, and CERN, led by Frank Hutter , Noah Hollmann , and Sauraj Gambhir , and advised by Bernhard Schölkopf and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun.
In July 2026, less than 18 months after our €9M pre-seed, we joined SAP as an independent frontier AI lab - same team, mission, and open-weights models, now backed by more than €1 billion over four years.
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About the role
You'll join the research team and work hands-on on an entirely new class of AI models. We have more open research problems than people to work on them, so you'll find challenges that match your interests and expertise. Problems we're working on:
Scaling our transformer architectures from 10K to 1M+ samples while maintaining performance
Building multimodal models that combine text and tabular understanding on proprietary data
Developing specialized architectures for time series, forecasting, and anomaly detection
Creating efficient inference methods for production deployment
Researching causal understanding in foundation models
Designing novel approaches for handling multiple related tables
What we're looking for
Currently pursuing or holding a PhD in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (we will also consider exceptional Master's students)
Deep experience with ML frameworks, especially PyTorch and scikit-learn
Strong engineering fundamentals with excellent Python expertise
Experience in data science and working with tabular data or time series
Publications at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) or significant open-source contributions
Benefits
Strong mentorship and professional development opportunities
Work with state-of-the-art ML architectures, substantial compute resources, and a world-class team
Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, transportation, and fitness
Life at Prior Labs
You'll work alongside researchers and builders who hold themselves to a very high bar - in the quality of their work and in how they work with each other. We move fast and still take the time to do things right.
Our teams are based in Berlin, Freiburg, and New York - when you're working on something as hard as TabPFN, being in the same room matters. But great people come from everywhere, and in exceptional cases we're open to remote, which usually means frequent travel to one of our offices. Wherever you're based, the whole company comes together regularly for offsites to build and celebrate together.
Our Commitments
The best products and teams are built by people with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds. We welcome applications from all identities and walks of life - especially if you've ever felt discouraged by "not checking every box" - and provide equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin, disability, or any other trait that makes you who you are.
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