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Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer

PerplexityResearchPosted Sep 2, 2026Live · checked 10 min. ago

Tech mentioned

  • PyTorch
  • RAG
Location
Berlin
Workplace
Remote
Salary
Not listed
Seniority
Intern
Employment
Full-time
Team
Search

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).

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