Applied AI/ML Scientist, Intern - Winter 2027

The role

You will own a focused project in areas such as predicting order packing, recommending packing methods, or understanding products from a catalog. You will survey literature, prototype and train models, and work with scientists and engineers to test implementations against live traffic.

What you will do

• 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

Required qualifications

• 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
• Strong Python and SQL
• Ability to read research papers and turn promising ideas into working code
• Solid grounding in statistics and model evaluation, including benchmarking against strong baselines and estimating uncertainty
• Comfort working with noisy or incomplete real-world data
• A genuine enthusiasm for tackling ambiguous problems and learning new tools and techniques

Nice to have

• ideally with images, text, or both, including fine-tuning pre-trained models or working with embeddings

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Company-wide recharge days
• Paid parental leave up to 16 weeks
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot, including a lifetime reimbursement allowance
• Mental health support and coaching through Modern Health
• Stipends to support professional development, wellness, and work from home needs
• Employer-sponsored retirement plan

Before you apply

• Faire uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen and select applicants for this position

About the company

Faire is a technology wholesale platform that uses tech, data, and machine learning to connect independent retailers with products from around the world. The company was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square.