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)