Internship - Search Machine Learning Engineer

Perplexity·Belgrade·Posted 13 January 2026

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Perplexity is looking for a Search Machine Learning Engineer Intern to help build the next generation of advanced search technologies, with a focus on retrieval and ranking. You will work closely with experienced engineers to improve search quality, experiment with new models, and ship features that directly impact how users search and discover information. Internship program: 12 - 24 weeks, full-time, part-time, in-person in the Belgrade office. Responsibilities: - Contribute to experiments that improve search quality through better models, data usage, and evaluation tools, under the guidance of senior engineers. - Design and implement components of the search platform and model stack, including retrieval, ranking, and classification models. - Train evaluating models (including LLM-based approaches) for retrieval, ranking, and classification tasks. - Support deployment and monitoring of search and ranking models in a scalable and performant way. - Help build and iterate on RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation. - Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to deliver improvements quickly and learn best practices in production ML.…

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