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We turn the songs people love into sounds they can play with, enabling fans and creators to reimagine music through intuitive, remix-friendly experiences with zero learning curve.\nBy partnering directly with artists, labels, and rightsholders, Hook ensures music is discovered, shared, and expressed in ways that respect and reward the people behind it. At Hook, music isn't just consumed. It's experienced, expressed, and made personal.\nRole Overview\nWe are looking for a Machine Learning Engineering Intern to help design, build, and improve the recommendation systems that power personalized music discovery and social experiences at Hook.\nYou will work on the engineering and applied machine learning challenges behind large-scale personalization, from processing user interaction data and building recommendation models to developing ranking algorithms and evaluating their performance.\nYou'll have the opportunity to implement ML algorithms, build data processing and feature engineering pipelines, experiment with different recommendation architectures, and contribute to the systems that help users discover music, engage with content, and connect with creators.\nWorking closely with our engineering, research, and product teams, you'll take ideas from experimentation to working prototypes, gaining hands-on experience building real-world machine learning systems in a 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