Internship@grenoble: The Ai Pac-man

_Le descriptif de l’offre ci-dessous est en Anglais_ **Type de contrat**: Convention de stage **Niveau de diplôme exigé**: Bac + 4 ou équivalent **Fonction**: Stagiaire de la recherche **A propos du centre ou de la direction fonctionnelle**: The Centre Inria de l’Université de Grenoble groups together almost 600 people in 23 research teams and 9 research support departments. Staff is present on three campuses in Grenoble, in close collaboration with other research and higher education institutions (Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, INRAE,), but also with key economic players in the area. The Centre Inria de l’Université Grenoble Alpe is active in the fields of high-performance computing, verification and embedded systems, modeling of the environment at multiple levels, and data science and artificial intelligence. The center is a top-level scientific institute with an extensive network of international collaborations in Europe and the rest of the world. **Contexte et atouts du poste**: The length of the internship is _4 months minimum_ and the start date is flexible, but need a 2 month delay before starting the interhsip due to administrative constraints. The DataMove team is a friendly and stimulating environment that gathers Professors, Researchers, PhD and Master students. The city of Grenoble is a student-friendly city surrounded by the Alps mountains, offering a high quality of life and where you can experience all kinds of mountain-related outdoor activities. **Mission confiée**: The recent but already famous AI Scientist paper proposes to rely on a combination of LLM-agents to automate research paper generation. It covers the process end-to-end: generating novel research ideas, writing and debugging code for experiments, executing these experiments, generating plots from results, describing its findings by writing a full scientific paper, and even reviewing the paper. The goal of this internship is to take inspiration from this pipeline while targeting a more focused task: building software packages. We have a double motivation: The first one is to evaluate the potential of such LLM-agents for non-trivial coding tasks (but not so complex that it will prevent us from getting interesting results within a few months), the second is to actually build a tool that hopefully will be useful for our team. Our team has been involved in software packaging efforts and developed advanced expertise with the Nix, Guix and Spack software packagers. The main task of packaging software is writing a specification file that identifies all required dependencies, how to download the software, and how to call its build tools, like Cmake with the correct options. Once completed, a command like "guix install emacs" should install all dependencies, download the code, compile and install it. The task of writing a package description is time-consuming. Different package managers often use their own specification language. It may also require modifying compilation recipes (cmakelist.txt files for cmake) that directly install dependencies (dependencies should all be installed through the package manager to properly track them). - Use package managers to query existing packages, test building and installing a given package - Produce a package recipe for a given software, potentially modifying compilation recipes (like CMakeLists.txt) when required - Compile and install the built package, retrieve errors if any, correct them, and repeat until successful **Recommended References**: **Principales activités**: **Compétences**: Expected skills include - Devops Knowledge: software compilation, Git, cmake, package management (Nix, Guix or other), CI - Some practical experience with LLMs. - Python - English (working language) **Avantages**: - Subsidized meals - Partial reimbursement of public transport costs - Leave - Possibility of teleworking and flexible organization of working hours **Rémunération**: €4.35 per hour of actual presence at 1 January 2024. About 590€ gross per month (internship allowance) **Informations générales**: - **Thème/Domaine**: Architecture, langages et compilation Système & réseaux (BAP E) - **Ville**: Saint Martin d'Hères - **Centre Inria**: Centre Inria de l'Université Grenoble Alpes - **Date de prise de fonction souhaitée**: 2025-03-03 - **Durée de contrat**: 5 mois - **Date limite pour postuler**: 2025-01-16 **Consignes pour postuler**: CV + cover letter **Sécurité défense**: Ce poste est susceptible d’être affecté dans une zone à régime restrictif (ZRR), telle que définie dans le décret n°2011-1425 relatif à la protection du potentiel scientifique et technique de la nation (PPST). L’autorisation d’accès à une zone est délivrée par le chef d’établissement, après avis ministériel favorable, tel que défini dans l’arrêté du 03 juillet 2012, relatif à la PPST. Un avis ministériel défavorable pour un poste affecté dans une ZRR aurait pour conséquence l’annulation du recrutement. **Politiq