Machine Learning Engineer - Internship

Gorgias empowers ecommerce brands to grow through AI-powered customer experience. We are the #1 CX platform in the industry, trusted by over 15,000 merchants worldwide – from small independent shops to some of the largest ecommerce brands in the world.

We offer the most integrations of any tool on Shopify (100+) and the ability to get setup fast, without the need for complex onboarding. Gorgias offers its users a unified platform to manage every aspect of their customer support on every channel.

We can automate 60% of a brand’s support so that agents can focus on high-value conversations and driving sales. Plus, we offer purpose-built marketing tools to help merchants convert more shoppers into customers, driving GMV.

Engineering Team Culture

Getting Stuff Done, Ownership, Team Work, Excellence, and Agility.

You should join us if you want to ship stuff fast without sacrificing quality. We've put great importance on testing our code, cleaning it, treating errors first, and features later.

We also value growth and ownership. People make mistakes. We learn from them to avoid them in the future. We cannot achieve excellence if there are no bumps in the road.

About the Machine Learning Team

Join our Machine Learning team, where we’re transforming the ecommerce landscape by automating interactions between merchants and shoppers. Our mission is to make these experiences effortless for everyone involved.

Our team includes Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who work together to advance AI-driven customer support. Our main focus is building an AI Agent that can accurately and efficiently respond to customer inquiries and drive sales!

As a company,

• we serve 15K+ e-commerces,

• we handle 1M+ merchant-shopper interactions per day

• we recently raised $30 Million Series C (crunchbase article)

The Machine Learning solutions we built are already embedded in the product:

• A state of the art Agentic LLM pipeline that crafts answers and execute e-commerce actions -bringing value to both Gorgias and our customers at scale!!!

  • rely on multiple providers (including in-house fine-tuned models),

  • implement AB testing to validate prompt engineering,

  • built a knowledge retrieval system to contextualize customer requests (ANN, rerankers, feedbackloops, knowledge graphs)

• Classification Algorithms based on classical NLP to identify non-support-related emails, detect intent, and infer customer sentiments

• Clustering based on minimum cost flow problems to discover new knowledge resources from non-automated interactions

• Product recommendation system to drive sales and conversions on merchant websites

What you will do

As part of the Machine Learning team, you will play a crucial role in developing, refining, and enabling our AI Agent, designed to automatically address and resolve shopper requests for our merchant clients. You will optimize and implement solutions that enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and functionality of our AI-driven customer support, marketing and phone solutions.

• Machine Learning:

  • Own the feedback, observability, and continuous training of the deployed solutions/models (we use HuggingFace, Vertex, Comet ML, multiple LLM providers, and PromptLayer)

  • Work on Generative Agents, Recommender systems, and Knowledge graphs

  • Solve product-facing problems with classical NLP and/or with LLMs

  • Keep up with the relevant math and computer science state-of-the-art

• Engineering

  • Build clear tech specs and implement solutions with domain-driven design that can scale and allow for fast, reliable, and trusted iterations.

  • Maintain our services (we use FastAPI) and cron jobs (we use Kubeflow)

  • Own the development life cycle (Terraform permissions, test coverage of 80%, CI/CD, k8s, Datadog, PagerDuty)

  • Collaborate in a cross-functional team: we are providing Machine Learning as a service within Gorgias

  • Maintain the ML team data pipeline (we use BigQuery and DBT)

  • Collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, and product managers to understand requirements and incorporate feedback

  • Analyze the performances post-release and help identify a path toward improvements in the next iteration

Who you are

• During your internship in the ML team at Gorgias, you’re expected to grow technically to become efficient at handling the responsibilities mentioned above.

  • Technical Skills: You’re able to write object oriented software in Python. You’re familiar with Docker, pip-tools, and capable of maintaining a local development setup. Familiarity with our engineering tools, frameworks, and GCP is a plus.

  • Breadth of knowledge: You are familiar with Machine Learning (NLP/LLM/HuggingFace/Math), software design (DDD), text-to-speech, speech-to-text, reinforcement learning and vision.

  • Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in english, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Education: Masters degree in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), or a related field.

Company Benefits and Perks

💰 2k/month (Competitive salary & equity - 90th percentile worldwide, go check our public salary calculator)

🏖️ 1 paid day off per month

🤕 1 paid day of sick leave per quarter

🍽️ Lunch vouchers by Swile

🚂 We provide a transportation stipend

🏢 Hybrid Work Policy - 2 days (Wednesday & Thursday) mandatory attendance in Paris office

More cool things to know about Gorgias... 😁

• Raised our Series C-2 for $29M in May 2024: Article Here ⬅️

• We went from 0 to 15,000+ merchants using our platform since 2016

• We have a 4.3 rating on Glassdoor & 4.7 Comparably culture score

• What our customers are saying: apps.shopify.com/helpdesk#reviews

• Other positions: gorgias.com/about-us/jobs

• Discover the Gorgias Platform

• Learn about our Compensation Policy

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Gorgias

At Gorgias, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone is valued. We provide equal opportunities without discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, or any characteristic protected by law.

We also recognize that individuals from diverse backgrounds—especially women and underrepresented groups—may hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement. If this role excites you and you’re eager to grow, we strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check every box. You might bring something unique and valuable that we didn’t even know we needed.

If you need accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other employment benefits, please contact us at accommodation@gorgias.com. Let’s grow together!