ML Engineer Intern

Job Description

About Company

Kensho is S&P Global’s hub for AI innovation and transformation, specializing in machine learning, natural language processing, and data discovery. The company develops and deploys novel solutions to innovate and drive progress for S&P Global and its customers worldwide. Kensho’s solutions and research primarily focus on business and financial generative AI applications, agents, data retrieval APIs, data extraction, and more.

Kensho fosters a culture that values talented individuals, providing them with the autonomy and support needed to build cutting-edge technology and products. They emphasize collaboration, leveraging diverse perspectives to solve complex problems, and maintain open, honest, and efficient communication. Kensho dedicates resources to explore new ideas, always rooted in strong engineering best practices, enabling rapid innovation to produce scalable, robust, and useful technology. The company prides itself on a team-based, tightly-knit startup Kenshin community that offers a collaborative and communicative environment. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with an additional office location in New York City.

Job Description: ML Engineer Intern

Kensho is seeking ML Engineer Interns to join its team of Machine Learning Engineers. The role involves contributing to the development of a cutting-edge GenAI platform, LLM-powered applications, and fundamental AI toolkit solutions like Kensho Extract. The ideal candidate shares a passion for bringing robust, scalable, and highly accurate ML solutions to production.

What You’ll Do:
• Apply advanced NLP techniques to extract insights from large proprietary unstructured and structured datasets.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable production-ready ML systems.
• Participate in the complete ML model lifecycle, from problem framing to training, deployment, and monitoring in production.
• Partner with the ML Operations team to deliver solutions for automating the ML model lifecycle, from technical design to implementation.
• Work within a cross-functional team comprising ML Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers.

What We Look For (Qualifications):
• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree or higher with relevant classwork or internships in Machine Learning.
• Experience in designing and iterating on agentic systems, understanding user interactions, and evaluating agent performance to enhance user experiences.
• Experience with advanced machine learning methods.
• Strong statistical knowledge, intuition, and experience modeling real data.
• Expertise in Python and Python-based ML frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Pydantic AI, PyTorch).
• Demonstrated effective coding, documentation, and communication habits.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively express even complicated methods and results to a broad, often non-technical, audience.

Technologies & Tools Used:
• Agentic systems: Agentic Orchestration, Deep Research, Information Retrieval, LLM code generation, LLM tool utilization, Multi-turn Conversationality, Textual RAG systems.
• Core ML/AI: DGL, GNNs, HuggingFace, LangGraph, LightGBM, PyTorch, SKLearn, Transformers, XGBoost.
• Data Exploration and Visualization: Jupyter, Matplotlib, Pandas, Weights & Biases, Gradio, Streamlit.
• Data Management and Storage: AWS Athena, DVC, LabelBox, OpenSearch, Postgres/Pgvector, S3, SQLite.
• Deployment & MLOps: Arize, AWS, Amazon EKS, DeepSpeed, Containerization, Grafana, Jenkins, LangFuse, LiteLLM, Ray, vLLM.

Internship Environment & Benefits:
Interns will work on a team with experienced engineers, providing an opportunity to learn and grow. The environment is collaborative and communicative. Interns will have the opportunity to attend technical and non-technical discussions, as well as company-wide social events.

Location Requirement:
Kensho values in-person collaboration, therefore interns are required to work out of the Cambridge HQ or the New York City office.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Kensho is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

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