Instacart

Machine Learning Engineer, PhD Intern

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about 1 month ago
Remote, United States
Intern

Responsibilities

  • Work on query understanding using AI and LLM techniques.
  • Improve search relevance by incorporating user behavior and catalog knowledge.
  • Develop generative recommendations and scalable feedback models.
  • Build LLM-based evaluation frameworks to enhance generative systems.
  • Research techniques for deploying LLMs in production environments.
  • Manage graph data and knowledge discovery over grocery catalogs.
  • Create temporal models for user behavior prediction.

Requirements

  • Ph.D. student in computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics, or related areas.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and Golang.
  • Solid foundations in machine learning, algorithms, or optimization.
  • Curious and self-motivated with a comfort in open-ended problem solving.
  • Preferred: Ph.D. student at a top tier university in the US.
  • Preferred: Hands-on experience with generative or traditional modeling frameworks.
  • Preferred: Prior industry or research internship in machine learning or AI.
  • Preferred: Interest in translating research ideas into scalable production systems.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment allowing remote work.
  • Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.

Tech Stack

GoPythonPyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

AI & MLData Science