# Internship Program

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/79a07e2d-6150-4929-80fe-bbe13a641763
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c041d54a-929

## Description

Perplexity is excited to announce the Internship Program for exceptional Master’s or PhD students studying Computer Science or Engineering in the UK, enrolled in the 2025-2026 academic year. This is an intensive program in which you will work directly with our AI Inference team.

## What you'll do

- Work with the inference team to improve serving latency and throughput

- Bring up support for new models and state-of-the-art inference optimizations or quantization schemes

- Optimize inference across the entire stack, from GPU kernels to serving endpoints

## What you need

- Strong engineering track record with proven knowledge of fundamentals and programming languages (multi-threaded programming, networking, compilation, systems programming, etc)

- Pursuing a Master's or PhD in Computer Science with a focus on performance-related subjects (HPC, Compilers, Distributed Systems)

## Skills

### Required
- strong engineering track record
- proven knowledge of fundamentals and programming languages
- pursuing a Master's or PhD in Computer Science

### Nice to have
- experience with ML frameworks (Torch, JAX)
- experience with GPU programming (CUDA, Triton)
- experience with High-Performance Computing (OpenMPI)