Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer
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- Target Role:Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer
- Employer:Perplexity AI
- Work Mode:REMOTE
- Location:Remote (Germany)
- Compensation:Competitive Global Equity & CTC (Official)
- Experience:2+ Years
- Recruiter SLA:7-Day Truth Teller Guarantee
- Candidate Fee:₹0 (Zero Placement Fee Guarantee)
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About the Role
Internship Program Berlin Internship program: 12 - 24 weeks, full-time, in-person in the Berlin office. Responsibilities - Relentlessly push search quality forward — through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available. - Train, and optimize large-scale deep learning models using frameworks like PyTorch, leveraging distributed training (e.g., PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, FSDP) and hardware acceleration, with a focus on retrieval and ranking models. - Conduct research in representation learning, including contrastive learning, multilingual, evaluation, and multimodal modeling for search and retrieval. - Build and optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation. Qualifications - Understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation principles and metrics. - Strong proficiency with PyTorch, including experience in distributed training techniques and performance optimization for large models. - Interested in representation learning, including contrastive learning, dense & sparse vector representations, representation fusion, cross-lingual representation alignment, training data optimization and robust evaluation. - Publication record in AI/ML conferences or workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR).
Key Responsibilities
- Relentlessly push search quality forward — through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available.
- Train, and optimize large-scale deep learning models using frameworks like PyTorch, leveraging distributed training (e.g., PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, FSDP) and hardware acceleration, with a focus on retrieval and ranking models.
- Conduct research in representation learning, including contrastive learning, multilingual, evaluation, and multimodal modeling for search and retrieval.
- Build and optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.
Perks & Benefits
- Official mentor support
- verified hiring timeline
- and career progression.
The employer seeks candidates proficient in the following core technologies:
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