Applied AI/ML Scientist Intern - Multimodal Shipping

Faire; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

PTO

Parental leave

WFH stipend

Learning grant

Wellness credits

Mental health resources

Charitable matching

Career development

Job summary

Faire is seeking a Winter 2027 Applied AI/ML internship in San Francisco to own a focused project within Shipping and Fulfillment. You will survey literature, prototype models, and build working implementations tested on live traffic.

The role emphasizes collaboration with scientists and engineers and presenting results to the team. The internship runs 12 to 14 weeks starting January 2027, with flexible start dates for qualified candidates.

Qualifications

• Comfort working with noisy or incomplete real-world data.
• Strong Python and SQL.
• Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a Master’s or PhD program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience building deep learning models (e.g., PyTorch), ideally with images, text, or both, including fine-tuning pre-trained models or working with embeddings.
• Familiarity with gradient-boosted trees and other tabular ML methods.
• Solid grounding in statistics and model evaluation, including benchmarking against strong baselines and estimating uncertainty.
• Ability to read research papers and turn promising ideas into working code.

Responsibilities

• Survey the literature and existing approaches to identify promising ideas.
• Prototype and train models offline, benchmarking against current methods.
• Build out the strongest approach into a working implementation.
• Work with Applied Scientists and ML Engineers to test it against live traffic.
• Present findings and recommendations to the team.

Skills

Noisy data handling

Python

SQL

PyTorch

Research reading

ML modeling

Statistics

Code from papers

Education

MS or PhD in CS/ML/Statistics/EE

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Faire is seeking a Winter 2027 Applied AI/ML internship in San Francisco to own a focused project within Shipping and Fulfillment. You will survey literature, prototype models, and build working implementations tested on live traffic.

The role emphasizes collaboration with scientists and engineers and presenting results to the team. The internship runs 12 to 14 weeks starting January 2027, with flexible start dates for qualified candidates.