# ML Engineer Intern | Summer 2026

About the role Skills: Python, PyTorch, NLP, LLMs, Information Retrieval, Entity Resolution, Text Classification We're building the gateway to the internet for AI agents. Our APIs already power hundreds of customers - and we went from 0 to $10M+ ARR in our first 18 months. Now we need someone who can push the boundaries of what our ML systems can do. We're hiring an ML Engineer Intern to work directly with our founding team on the research and engineering behind our core intelligence layer. Our platform indexes hundreds of millions of professional profiles and company records from across the web. Making that data searchable, matchable, and enriched is an ML problem at its core. This is a 12-week summer internship (June-August 2026). You will not be fetching coffee or watching from the sidelines. You will be researching, training, and shipping models - from paper to prototype to production. Previous interns' work has shipped to customers within weeks. Who you are Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field Strong fundamentals in NLP, information retrieval, or entity resolution - through coursework, research, or side projects Fa

- **Id**: 1240378
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/crustdata-ml-engineer-intern-summer-2026>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T16:39:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T21:39:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3509
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: B2B Company & Contact Data

## Company

- **Id**: 2397442
- **Name**: Crust Data
- **Domain**: crustdata.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/crustdata>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 8000
- **Max**: 14000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: month
- **Usd annual**: 168000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Contrastive Learning** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T16:39:24Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 27
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.754
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 168000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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