Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer

Perplexity
Berlin
Workplace: OnsiteInternshipFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving"]

An in-person Berlin internship focused on advancing search quality through large-scale deep learning. You’ll train and optimize PyTorch-based models (distributed training with DeepSpeed/FSDP), conduct representation learning research, and build RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation, contributing to cutting-edge AI/ML research while collaborating with a Berlin-based team.

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Perplexity
Perplexity
7 months ago

Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer

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Job Summary

An in-person Berlin internship focused on advancing search quality through large-scale deep learning. You’ll train and optimize PyTorch-based models (distributed training with DeepSpeed/FSDP), conduct representation learning research, and build RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation, contributing to cutting-edge AI/ML research while collaborating with a Berlin-based team.
Location: Berlin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Internship
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Entry level

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.

Key Requirements

  • •Understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation principles and metrics.
Experience:AI/MLSearchNLP
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PyTorchDeepSpeedFSDPPyTorch Distributed

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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