Research Intern
Mixedbread · San Francisco, CA · Remote
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own a retrieval research project leading to a paper, blog post, or open release.
- Explore multimodal search challenges across text, images, and beyond.
- Investigate how LLMs can enhance and reshape retrieval pipelines.
What they offer
- Competitive internship compensation
- Close mentorship from a world-class team
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Visa sponsorship + relocation support
- Professional development budget
- Access to the best AI tools and subscriptions
- Team off-sites + conference attendance
- Transportation support
- Wellness support, including gym membership and sports club subscriptions
- Food support
Ideal candidate
Enrolled student passionate about advancing information retrieval and multimodal search. Collaborative, feedback-driven learner excited to push retrieval beyond single-vector methods.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program
- Prior exposure to retrieval, embeddings, or adjacent domains
- Proficiency in Python and ability to implement models from scratch
- Strong interest in Information Retrieval and its role in advancing AI
- Belief that single-vector similarity search is outdated, with enthusiasm for late interaction and beyond
- Collaborative mindset and willingness to learn from feedback
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship + relocation support
Lab profile
About Mixedbread
Building next-generation multimodal, transformer-native information retrieval systems for AI applications.
What they build
- AI search API
- Embedding and retrieval models
- Developer dashboards and interactive playgrounds
Known for
- Multimodal information retrieval
- Multilingual search across 100+ languages
- LLM-augmented and agentic search
- High-performance search infrastructure
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