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Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · Berlin

Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added 5 days ago

Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.

Salary

Not stated

Location

Hybrid · Berlin

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Entry

Category

Data

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Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Berlin, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

  • Source listing states candidate location: "Berlin, Hybrid"
  • Listing mentions "Hybrid"

What Nomaders makes of it

  • Not suitable if you plan to move between countries

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About the role

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).

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.
  • ·Publication record in AI/ML conferences or workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR).

Benefits

No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.

How to apply

  1. 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
  2. 2Tailor your CV to the role at Perplexity, mentioning your remote working experience.
  3. 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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