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Perplexity is looking for an experienced Machine Learning Research Engineer to contribute to the development of next-generation advanced search technologies, with a particular emphasis on retrieval and ranking. This role involves architecting and building core components of the search platform and model stack, and deploying models from boosting algorithms to LLMs in a scalable and performant manner. The engineer will also be responsible for building and optimizing RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality delivery.

This internship program offers a full-time, in-person opportunity in Berlin for 12 to 24 weeks. Interns will focus on advancing search quality through innovative models, data, and tools. The role involves training and optimizing large-scale deep learning models, with a particular emphasis on retrieval and ranking models. Additionally, interns will conduct research in representation learning, covering areas like contrastive learning, multilingual, evaluation, and multimodal modeling for search and retrieval. A key aspect of the role includes building and optimizing RAG pipelines for enhanced grounding and answer generation.