Internship - Machine Learning Research Engineer at Perplexity
- Company: Perplexity
- Location: Remote / Berlin
- Employment type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Technologies: PyTorch, RAG
About the role
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.…
Apply on Perplexity's official careers page: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/b9e1ff15-d52a-46d5-abf0-26460f2a116c