Search Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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About the Role

You will improve search quality through model, data, and evaluation experiments. You will implement retrieval, ranking, and classification components, train and evaluate models, deploy and monitor search models, and iterate on RAG pipelines during a full-time, in-person London internship.

Requirements

  • Machine learning and statistics foundation
  • Coursework or projects in information retrieval, ranking, or recommender systems
  • Python experience
  • Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
  • Rust experience is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to experiments that improve search quality
  • Design and implement retrieval, ranking, and classification components
  • Train and evaluate models for retrieval, ranking, and classification
  • Support deployment and monitoring of search and ranking models
  • Build and iterate on RAG pipelines
  • Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure, and Product teams
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