A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Forward Deployed Engineering is a radical commitment to the outcome. This is Palantir’s operating ethos. We pioneered this unique position, embedding engineers directly with our customers to tackle their most pressing challenges head-on. As an FDE, you’ll be at the intersection of world-changing problems and impactful technology, shaping solutions where they matter most. From hospital beds to factory floors, Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) embed themselves in the customer’s reality until the problem is theirs. This requires walking many miles in a customer’s shoes, building past the perimeter of what the product currently offers, and deviating from every pre-existing formula to solve the problem. Whether that problem is “How do we predict and mitigate wildfire risks across a power grid?” or “How can we analyze and adapt a global supply chain to deliver critical parts on time?”, you’ll use your technical expertise, creativity, and problem-solving skills to drive real-world impact. Core Responsibilities To solve mission-critical problems by deploying software and AI into the high stakes operations of the world’s leading institutions. This requires a ruthless commitment to truth-seeking and prioritizing real outcomes. The work is difficult. The stakes are real. You will work in small, high-trust teams and own projects end-to-end, from the first conversation with a customer, to shipping the product that changes how they operate. You will embed with the customer, the chaos, and the consequences, and will be entrusted with real ownership to: Collaborate with engineers to make architecture and design decisions Wrestle with data at a scale that breaks ass
Internship - Search Machine Learning Engineer
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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, in-person in the London 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 m
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Strong foundation in machine learning and statistics, with coursework or projects related to information retrieval, ranking, or recommender systems. Experience with Python and common ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX) through academic, open source, or personal projects. Familiarity with evaluating model quality using offline metrics and/or A/B testing is a plus, but not required. Previous experience (internships, research, or significant projects) working on search, recommendation, or NLP is a plus, but not required. Self-driven and curious, with a strong sense of ownership, willingness to learn, and comfort working in a fast-paced environment Experience with Rust will be a plus
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