Machine Learning Software Engineer Intern - Winter 2027

About the Role

At Rippling, Engineering is at the heart of our business and culture. We believe in our early talent’s potential, experience and aspirations. Our mission is to open the realm of possibilities and opportunities for students by fostering growth through mentorship and training, ownership through impactful and innovative projects, and, of course, fun through our diverse culture and work hard, play harder attitude. As an Engineering Intern, you will join the Machine Learning Team in Winter 2027 (Middle of January-April) to develop robust, well-designed products, implement new updates and features, and solve complex problems that affect our business and our clients. Rippling Interns gain the experience of full-time engineers with responsibilities, ownership, and opportunity. Interns will be assigned projects that not only have an impact on the business, but that are also scoped to fit within the time constraints of their internship so they can see the full impact of their work.

What you will do

• Translate product needs into crisp mathematical formulations (models); train those models; and, with a small team ship them to production.
• Learn how to design scalable machine learning pipelines for data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation. You will work with data engineers to collect and preprocess data sets for model training.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest research in ML and related fields, and apply this knowledge to improve Rippling products.

What you will need

• Currently enrolled in a M.Sc. or Ph.D. program in computer science or in a related field during the course of the internship.
• Solid programming skills with an emphasis on backend experience and knowledge. Our production code base is primarily Python, PySpark, and PyTorch.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Passion to learn and develop your skills, both in machine learning and software engineering.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with developing things that use large language models (LLMs) and familiarity with pre-training and fine-tuning techniques.

Additional Information

• Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
• Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com
• Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40 mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role. Interns will be based out of one of our San Francisco and New York offices.