Machine Learning Engineer - Research Internship
Description
Meltwater, a pioneer of media intelligence and now Outside Insight, gives businesses the information advantage they need to stay ahead. More than 30,000 companies have used Meltwater’s media intelligence to stay on top of billions of online conversations and extract relevant insights to strategically manage their brands. Meltwater is dedicated to personal, global service built on the local expertise of 55 offices across six continents. Meltwater is also committed to fostering the data science ecosystem through MEST, a pan-African entrepreneurial program and incubator, and Shack15, a global data science community.
Our AI team is young, ambitious and focused on innovation. With Meltwater, we are more than 2000 people across the globe, so there is a lot going on. We believe in diversity and inclusion, and building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives. This approach not only raises the quality of our products for our customers, but makes collaboration along the way much more fun.
If you’re passionate about staying on top of online trends, if your ambition is to help companies serve their customers, if you’re curious about what’s happening in the world and love to listen to others, and if you’re thrilled to be a part of shaping the future of social media intelligence, then we want to hear from you!
JOB DESCRIPTION
Meltwater’s Consumer Intelligence AI Team is looking for a ML Research Intern who will be contributing on developing new innovative Natural Language Processing or Computer Vision features relying on the literature’s state of the art. Those features are meant to be integrated in our Consumer Intelligence platform meaning that your work will be used by our customers.
We are looking for someone with a creative, proactive, collaborative, and innovation focused mindset. You will work alongside a team of passionate engineers driven by enthusiasm for new technologies and excitement about making the difference for customers using AI.
Our team is organized over 3 objectives : innovation, research and production.
- Innovation: We leverage our AI expertise to constantly imagine new business oriented features to enhance our products.
- Research: To implement our algorithms, we need to stay up-to-date to the latest breakthroughs over the Machine Learning world as well as the latest frameworks.
- Production: We make a point of designing and developing our algorithms in a software engineering fashion. Scalability is our goal. The models that we develop are running over billions of documents (text or image) per day.
You will take ownership of conducting research over a subject associated with Social Media data (billions of images and texts). Your results will help improve our products and could yield to publishing a paper. Depending on your profile and preferences, here are some examples of research subjects you might be working on:
- Explore Function Calling Agents with constraints on DSL and specific schemas generation tasks.
- Explore Large Language Models training to perform advanced data enrichments constrained to a user-defined scope and objective on text, image or multimodal.
- Explore multi-task Computer Vision with a single backbone (Large Vision Model) with adapters.
- Enhance RAG components and LLMs evaluation systems.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
- A solid background in Statistics, Linear Algebra and Probability Theory.
- Strong understanding of Machine Learning techniques, their performance characteristics and their computational tradeoffs.
- A good background in Computer Science (data structures, algorithms, software design, etc.).
- Practical knowledge of Python or proficiency in one major programming language.
- Exceptional problem-solving, analytical skills and the ability to tackle complex problems with a critical thinking approach.
- Passion for AI, with a constant drive to stay updated and ahead of the curve.
Along with interesting extra skills :
- Appetite for Software Engineering and R&D problem solving.
- Completion of relevant academic AI research project.
- Experience with the latest Computer Vision/Natural Language Processing state of the art (Vision Transformers, various LLMs architectures, PEFT methods, etc.) is a big plus.
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
- Screening call with a TA member
- First contact to meet some of the AI members.
- Some AI team members who will guide you through a technical interview related to their day-to-day work.
- Discussion with the Head of Engineering, Meltwater Consumer Insights division.
WHY JOIN US ?
- You will work with a team of passionate people who are always willing to help and learn from others.
- You will have the opportunity to apply the most recent literature to concrete AI projects with a real impact on business.
- As a growing company, we combine a startup mindset with the resources necessary to commit to exciting new initiatives. At Meltwater, everyone has an opportunity to make a difference.
- Our Paris office is situated in the heart of Paris, which means we are well-connected.