Machine Learning Engineer Intern - Summer 2026
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2 months, 1 week ago
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San Francisco, CA, USA
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Perplexity is hiring a Summer 2026 ML Engineer Intern in San Francisco to help build the world's best answer engine. You will work on retrieval, ranking, query understanding, model fine-tuning, or inference optimization for our in-house and partner models. Expect to ship production features used by millions of daily users. Qualifications: pursuing a BS/MS/PhD in CS, ML, or related; strong Python and PyTorch; experience with information retrieval, LLMs, or search systems a plus; shipping-oriented mindset; prior internship or production ML experience expected.