Machine Learning Engineer Intern

📋 Job Overview

We are building Max VLM, a next-generation video foundation model designed to understand human activities, object interactions, and the physical world through first-person video. Our team focuses on developing state-of-the-art video understanding systems and applying them to real-world applications, including fine-grained video understanding, robotics evaluation, and intelligent video analysis. As a fast-moving startup, we combine cutting-edge AI research with practical engineering, working across the entire machine learning lifecycle, from data generation and model training to evaluation, optimization, and deployment. We are looking for motivated interns who are passionate about multimodal AI and eager to tackle challenging real-world machine learning problems.

🏢 About Maxinsights

Maxinsights is a company focused on developing advanced video foundation models and applying them to real-world applications. Our team is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of AI research and engineering, with a particular focus on video understanding, robotics, and intelligent video analysis.

🎯 The Role

As a Machine Learning Engineer Intern, you will work on developing and improving video-language foundation models for fine-grained video understanding, temporal reasoning, and human-object interaction analysis. You will also build and optimize machine learning pipelines for data processing, model training, evaluation, and inference. This role involves exploring advanced techniques in multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, and agentic AI to improve model capabilities.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Develop and improve video-language foundation models for fine-grained video understanding, temporal reasoning, and human-object interaction analysis.
• Build and optimize machine learning pipelines for data processing, model training, evaluation, and inference.
• Develop evaluation methods and benchmarks for video understanding and robotics applications, including action understanding, manipulation tasks, and task-success assessment.
• Explore advanced techniques in multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, and agentic AI to improve model capabilities.
• Collaborate with the team to translate new ideas into practical solutions and contribute to research and product development.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, or a related field.
• Solid understanding of deep learning, with experience in at least one of the following areas: computer vision, multimodal learning, large language models, video understanding, or robotics.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently implement and evaluate machine learning algorithms.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Hands-on experience with vision-language models, video understanding, or multimodal foundation models.
• Experience with LLM/VLM fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or agentic AI.
• Experience with robotics, robotic manipulation, or robot learning and evaluation.
• Familiarity with distributed training, model optimization, or inference frameworks such as DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, or vLLM.
• Publications at leading AI, computer vision, or robotics conferences, such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, RSS, or CoRL, are a strong plus.
• Passion for applying cutting-edge AI technologies to challenging real-world problems.

🎁 Benefits

Default Benefits:
Health insurance
Vision care
Dental coverage
401(k)
Paid holidays
PTO (Paid Time Off)
Sick leave

🛂 Visa & Eligibility