Machine Learning Intern

GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity. Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Meta, Perplexity, AWS, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, and Vector Institute. **What We're Looking For** At GPTZero, we ensure that machine learning models are created for the benefit of humanity, not the other way around. In this role, you'll build the next-gen platform to verify the origin, quality, and factuality of the world's information. The ideal candidate is someone who has a history of ML research, possesses a great product sense, and is also an excellent software engineer. You'll be working on a fast-paced team of passionate builders, creating industry-defining software that has attracted over 2M users globally. Past intern projects have been the focus of demos to VCs and state-level policy leaders. **Responsibilities** Depending on the candidate, the role can be targeted more towards ML engineering or research (publication-focused) * Design, train, and fine-tune state-of-the-art large language models * Develop AI agents combined with retrieval-augmented language models * Build efficient and scalable ML training and inference systems * Stay up-to-date with the latest literature and emerging technologies to solve novel problems * Work closely with product and design teams to develop intuitive applications that create societal impact **Qualifications** * Proficiency in Python and PyTorch * Experience pushing or implementing the cutting-edge in machine learning * Self-starter and hungry learner * Highly motivated to make positive societal impact * Ability to wear multiple hats * Visa for work in Canada or US * Bonus: + strong open-source portfolio + publications at top-tier ML venues + experience working in an early-stage startup environment + understanding of how machine learning models fail in the wild **Who You'll Be Joining** **Our Team** You will be working directly with * Alex (our CTO) R\&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML * George (our AI research lead) PhD from University of Toronto and ex-AWS research. * Olivia (our head of design) on translating your research into outputs for millions of users. * Edward (our CEO, ex-Bellingcat, Microsoft, BBC investigative journalism) to craft the messages we send to our community, and shape the GPTZero brand. Additionally, you will be working with an **experienced** (eg. *ex-Google, Meta* , *Microsoft, Bloomberg ML, Uber, Vector, MILA* ), **diverse** (eg. *an engineering team with both Y-combinator and Obama scholarship recipients, a designer with art featured in the Met),* and **driven** (eg. an *operator who has scaled a company to 100M\+ revenue and is committed to doing it again)* group of individuals, described by one investor as one of the strongest founding teams seen in their career. Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing, and on humanity. **Our Angels and Advisors** * Tom Glocer (Legendary Reuters CEO) * Mark Thompson (Legendary NYT CEO and current CNN chief executive) * Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice, brother of Sam Altman) * Karthik Narasimhan (Princeton NLP Professor, co-author of OpenAI’s original GPT paper) * Emad Mostaque (CEO of Stability AI) * Doug Herrington (CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores) * Brad Smith (President of Microsoft) * Tripp Jones (Partner at Uncork Capital) * Ali Partovi (co-founder of Code.org, early investor in Dropbox and Airbnb) * Russ Heddleston (CEO of Docsend) * Alex Mashrabov (Snapchat, Director of AI) * Faizan Mehdi (Affinity, Director of Demand Generation) **Our Perks** * 🏥 Health, dental, and mental health benefits * 💻 Hybrid work in Toronto and NYC offices * 🚀 Competitive salary * 🏝 Flexible PTO * 🎉 Regular company retreats * 💡Mentorship opportunities with our world-class team, advisors, and investors * 🙌 Wellness and learning stipend At GPTZero, our recruiting team is involved in every step of the hiring process. We use AI-based tools (such as Endorsed.ai and Juicebox.ai) to help us to accelerate candidates at the resume review stage by marking when candidates met certain key criteria. **These tools are never the final say in a hiring decision - humans are.**