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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  • Belief that single-vector similarity search is outdated, with enthusiasm for late interaction and beyond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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