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Machine Learning Engineer -- Intern

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The intern will assist in training and evaluating machine learning models, using AI tools for development, and providing feedback on features, while validating model performance and usability.
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Role Overview

We’re looking for an Machine Learning Engineer Intern to join our paid Summer 2026 internship cohort. The right person will be excited to help build AI-native developer tools. You will contribute to ML projects across dataset preparation, model experimentation, benchmarking, and exploring new frameworks or inference toolchains.

What You’ll Do:

  • Train, evaluate, and debug machine learning models (e.g., deep learning, classical ML, multimodal models) using Python, PyTorch, and related frameworks.

  • Use our internal AI-powered tooling to accelerate model development, dataset preparation, experiment tracking, and deployment workflows.

  • Help test features like dataset validation, automated hyperparameter search, model introspection, and inference/runtime integrations.

  • Provide structured feedback on usability, model behavior, edge cases, and failure modes (you’re part of the product loop).

  • Build demo models, evaluation scripts, or experiment workflows that help us validate reliability and usability of the platform.

  • Read academic papers, model cards, and technical documentation to cross-verify model performance and expected behavior.

You'll be a good fit if you:

  • Have hands-on experience training ML models (vision, NLP, or embedded/edge ML all welcome).

  • Know your way around core ML concepts: model architectures, loss functions, optimization, evaluation metrics.

  • Have experience with ML toolchains and workflows (e.g., PyTorch Lightning, Hugging Face, ONNX, TensorRT, Weights & Biases).

  • Are curious about how AI development tools could be radically better—and want to help shape that future.

Ideal candidates will:

  • Have a Master’s in Mathematics, Data Science, or Engineering.

  • Bring prior work or internship experience with model training, ML research, or applied AI engineering.

  • Be hungry to contribute to an ambitious startup, with opportunities to go full-time

Top Skills

Hugging Face
Onnx
Python
PyTorch
Pytorch Lightning
Tensorrt
Weights & Biases

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