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Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-Commerce Recommendation Foundation) - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, United States of America💼 Internship🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Building shared Recommendation Foundation Models using event-sequence-driven generative paradigms integrating LLMs/VLMs, multimodal understanding, and reinforcement learning.

Role type

PhD intern, research & engineering IC

Builds

Next-generation recommendation systems (retrieval, ranking, end-to-end generative)

Domain

E-commerce, Generative AI, Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, Deep learning, LLMs, Generative recommendation, Python, PyTorch

Preferred skills

Pre-training/mid-training/post-training of LLMs, Multimodal semantic tokenization, Top-tier ML/NLP conference publications

Technologies

LLMs, VLMs, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Participate in full training lifecycle of Recommendation Foundation Models; Design and train multimodal semantic tokenizers; Develop LLM-native recommendation; Build next-gen recommendation systems spanning retrieval, ranking, and generative recommendation.

Seniority

PhD Intern, Research & Engineering

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