About the role#
Nearby AI is building a marketplace for local home services. As an engineering intern, you will help build the personalized provider-recommendation pipeline from start to finish. You will work alongside engineers and product managers to design, launch, and iterate on features that help homeowners connect with the right service providers.
What you'll do#
- Use LLMs to extract service requirements, preferences, and constraints from user conversations, profiles, and context.
- Combine semantic search, recommendation algorithms, and provider features to improve relevance and coverage.
- Build backend pipelines that connect intent understanding, retrieval, provider comparison, and recommendation decisions.
- Perform entity matching across business information, reviews, credentials, and service coverage.
- Create evaluation datasets, analyze failure cases, and incorporate user feedback to improve quality, reliability, and latency.
What you'll need#
- Pursuing a bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, AI, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Python or Java with a strong grasp of data structures and algorithms.
- Hands-on experience developing LLM applications or agents, including RAG, agent workflows, and evaluation harnesses.
- Understanding of search, recommendation, or machine learning fundamentals.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the initiative to own your results.
- Experience with embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, or personalized matching is preferred.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, vector databases, or data pipelines is a plus.
- A portfolio of shipped products, open-source contributions, or independent projects that demonstrate individual impact.
Location & details#
- This is a full-time, paid internship based on-site in Mountain View, California.
- The program term is rolling.
About NewsBreak
NewsBreak operates a digital platform that aggregates local news and community information. The company connects users with content from over 10,000 sources across the United States. It maintains a focus on machine learning and natural language processing to personalize information delivery. Founded in 2015, the organization is based in Mountain View, California.
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