AI/ML Engineering Intern

About the role

TalentPluto is a Y Combinator-backed startup building the hiring stack for high-growth companies. We run two connected products: a talent network that places engineering, go-to-market, and operations people into fast-moving startups, and an AI recruiting tool that lets a hiring team run candidate search, tiered enrichment, rubric-based scoring, and outbound campaigns directly from their assistant. We work with dozens of venture-backed startups across AI, developer tools, fintech, and healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve LLM workflows for extraction, scoring, and ranking against real product data.
• Design evaluations that measure output quality, and use them to judge whether a change is an improvement.
• Work with messy, high-volume unstructured data and turn it into reliable structure.
• Improve retrieval and ranking so the most relevant results surface first.
• Investigate incorrect or low-quality output and trace it back to its cause.

Requirements

• Strong programming fundamentals in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or a similar language.
• Interest in applied AI, machine learning, LLMs, ranking, retrieval, or data systems.
• Comfort working with messy data and evaluating output quality.
• Has built AI/ML, data, class, research, or side projects.
• Strong problem-solving ability and a willingness to learn quickly.
• Clear communicator who can work independently in a remote environment.