Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer
- Pay
- Pay not listed ask before you accept
- Where
- Remote Coding, Data & AI, Product
- Posted
- Sep 2, 2026
About the role
Internship Program Berlin Internship program: 12 - 24 weeks, full-time, in-person in the Berlin office.
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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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