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ML Engineer Intern | Summer 2026

Crustdata · San Francisco, CA, US · On-site

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About Crustdata

Real-time B2B data via simple APIs. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Skills: Python, PyTorch, NLP, LLMs, Information Retrieval, Entity Resolution, Text Classification We're building the gateway to the internet for AI agents. Our APIs already power hundreds of customers — and we went from 0 to $10M+ ARR in our first 18 months. Now we need someone who can push the boundaries of what our ML systems can do.

What they're looking for

  • 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 — through coursework, research, or side projects
  • Familiar with transformer architectures — you've trained or fine-tuned encoder models, not just called APIs
  • Experience building retrieval systems, classifiers, or embedding models (in academic or personal projects)
  • Exposure to contrastive learning, metric learning, or representation learning
  • Have used LLMs for structured extraction, classification, or data generation
More about this role

Skills: Python, PyTorch, NLP, LLMs, Information Retrieval, Entity Resolution, Text Classification

We're building the gateway to the internet for AI agents. Our APIs already power hundreds of customers — and we went from 0 to $10M+ ARR in our first 18 months. Now we need someone who can push the boundaries of what our ML systems can do.

We're hiring an ML Engineer Intern to work directly with our founding team on the research and engineering behind our core intelligence layer. Our platform indexes hundreds of millions of professional profiles and company records from across the web. Making that data searchable, matchable, and enriched is an ML problem at its core.

This is a 12-week summer internship (June–August 2026). You will not be fetching coffee or watching from the sidelines. You will be researching, training, and shipping models — from paper to prototype to production. Previous interns' work has shipped to customers within weeks.

  • 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 — through coursework, research, or side projects
  • Familiar with...

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