Nearby AI Internship Program - Engineering Track

The role

This person will help build a personalized provider-recommendation pipeline end to end. Work includes user understanding with LLMs, provider retrieval and ranking, agent workflows, and multi-source knowledge integration.

What you will do

• Use LLMs to extract service requirements, preferences, and constraints from conversations, profiles, and context
• Combine semantic search, recommendation algorithms, and provider features to improve relevance and coverage
• Build backstage pipelines connecting intent understanding, retrieval, provider comparison, and recommendation decisions
• Perform entity matching across business information, reviews, credentials, and service coverage
• Build evaluation datasets, analyze failure cases and user feedback, and improve quality, reliability, and latency
• Ship and iterate

Required qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, AI, or a related field
• Proficient in Python or Java with solid data structures and algorithms
• Hands-on experience developing LLM applications or agents (RAG, agent workflows, evaluation harnesses)
• Understanding of search, recommendation, or ML fundamentals
• Strong problem-solving and communication
• Initiative to own results

Nice to have

• Embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, learning to rank, or personalized matching
• Elasticsearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, vector databases, or data pipelines
• Shipped products, open-source contributions, or independent projects showing individual impact
• Research and personal projects

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Options

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. Nearby AI is a new company from NewsBreak building a trust-first marketplace for local home services.