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ML Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

Crustdata (YC F24) · San Francisco, CA · 4 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$8k–$14k/moInternship

What You'll Be Doing

  • Research and develop machine learning models to process and enrich real-time B2B data
  • Build retrieval systems, classifiers, and embedding models to handle multilingual, web-scale data
  • Work on complex problems such as entity resolution, job title mapping, and technology detection
  • Collaborate with the founding team to advance the research and engineering behind the core intelligence layer

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field
  • Strong fundamentals in NLP, information retrieval, or entity resolution
  • Familiar with transformer architectures and have experience training or fine-tuning encoder models
  • Experience building retrieval systems, classifiers, or embedding models
  • Exposure to contrastive learning, metric learning, or representation learning
  • Have used large language models (LLMs) for structured extraction, classification, or data generation
  • Strong Python and PyTorch skills

Qualifications

  • Previous experience with entity resolution or record linkage at scale
  • Background in multilingual NLP or cross-lingual transfer
  • Open-source contributions in NLP/IR
  • Experience with distributed training on GPU clusters

Benefits

  • $8,000–$14,000/month (above market rate for SF internships)
  • Housing stipend for those relocating to San Francisco
  • Direct mentorship from the founding team
  • Your work ships to production and reaches real customers
  • 30 min video call with the CEO
  • 45 min technical deep-dive (ML systems design + paper discussion)
  • Paid work trial on a real problem (~1-2 weeks)

Pay & Schedule

  • $8,000–$14,000/month
  • 12-week summer internship (June–August 2026)

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