Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer
Perplexity AI · Berlin
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At a glance
Highlights
- Push search quality forward via models, data, and tooling innovation.
- Build and optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation.
- Research representation learning for multilingual search and retrieval.
Ideal candidate
A curious ML researcher obsessed with search quality and representation learning who loves turning research ideas into real retrieval experiences.
Requirements
- 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).
- remote policy
- on-site
Lab profile
About Perplexity AI
Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.
What they build
- Perplexity AI answer engine
- Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
- Comet AI browser and desktop apps
Known for
- Agentic AI and agent capabilities
- Applied AI product engineering
- Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
- Multimodal AI and integrations
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Serves millions of users daily