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Machine Learning Research Engineer Internship

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Experience Level

Entry Level

Qualifications

Candidates should possess a solid understanding of search and retrieval systems, proficiency in PyTorch, and a keen interest in representation learning and related fields.

About the job

Join Our Internship Program in Berlin!

We are excited to announce a full-time, in-person internship opportunity in our Berlin office, lasting between 12 to 24 weeks.

Your Responsibilities

  • Drive the advancement of search quality utilizing various models, data, tools, and innovative techniques.

  • Train and fine-tune large-scale deep learning models using PyTorch, employing distributed training methods (e.g., PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, FSDP) and hardware acceleration, with a focus on retrieval and ranking models.

  • Engage in research on representation learning, exploring contrastive learning, multilingual capabilities, evaluation methodologies, and multimodal modeling for enhanced search and retrieval.

  • Design and refine RAG pipelines for effective grounding and answer generation.

Qualifications

  • Solid understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation metrics and principles.

  • Demonstrated proficiency with PyTorch, particularly in distributed training and performance optimization for large models.

  • A keen interest in representation learning, covering areas such as contrastive learning, dense and sparse vector representations, representation fusion, cross-lingual representation alignment, training data optimization, and robust evaluation methods.

  • A publication record in AI/ML conferences or workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR) is a plus.

About Perplexity

Perplexity is a cutting-edge organization dedicated to enhancing search technologies through innovative machine learning solutions. Located in Berlin, we foster a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and experimentation.

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