Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer
Perplexity · Berlin
- Location
- Berlin
- Funding
- $1.5B
- Posted
- Sep 2, 2026
Perplexity is hiring a Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer based in Berlin. Every apply link on Engg.space goes straight to the company's own careers page - no recruiter middleman, no generic job-board form.
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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).
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