Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer
Position Overview
Job Description
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).
Perks & Benefits
About This Role
Perplexity is seeking a Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer to join their Intellectual Property team at the Mid level. This is a Full time, Remote position based in Remote, United States.
Interested candidates are encouraged to review the full job description above and apply through LegalAlphabet to be considered for this opportunity.
Practice Area
Intellectual Property
Position
Mid
Applicant Location Requirements
Applicants must be located in: US
Application Contact
Contact: Perplexity Hiring Team
Application Deadline
June 25, 2026
Employment Type
Full time
Work Arrangement
Remote/Telecommute Position
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