Amplitude - Machine Learning Research Intern, application via

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Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 2,300 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth.

As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

About The Role & Team

The Amplitude Experiment team is seeking a top machine learning research intern to join our team. You will be working with seasoned machine learning scientists, infra engineers and full-stack engineers to research interesting problems and develop innovative solutions that will have a profound impact on hundreds of thousands of digital businesses.

Our ambitious machine learning for product analytics agenda includes but is not limited to:

Causal effects modeling or heterogeneous treatment effects analysis

Analyzing experiments that have social network effects (ex: difference in differences, Switchback, Synthetic Control)

Time Series modeling

Bayesian hypothesis testing

Influence function construction for measuring effects or product features

Understanding how teams run experiments

B2B Experimentation

As a Machine Learning Research Intern, you will:

Innovating and implementing machine learning and data mining algorithms on distributed platforms to solve real-world product analytics and user behavior modeling problems.

Designing new algorithms to find predictive patterns that combine heterogeneous data assets, including sequential user events data, unstructured text, and knowledge graph.

Automating machine learning algorithms within the production environment.

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

A bachelor's, master’s, or Ph.D. degree in a top computer science program with extensive research experience in machine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, data mining, optimization, natural language processing, etc.

An in-depth understanding of machine learning algorithms and modeling (supervised learning, semi-supervised or unsupervised learning including generative models, transfer learning, optimization, probabilistic graphical models, etc.)

Track record in developing machine learning solutions using massive real-world data for solving real-world business problems.

Experience in Python with additional experience in Java and Scala.

In-depth experience with Spark/Hadoop and either PyTorch/Tensorflow

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

G2 Customer Reviews: #1 product analytics solution for 13 quarters in a row.

Business Insider: A top tech company to bet your career on.

Fast Company: #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.

Founded in 2012, Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker $AMPL.

We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and employees around the world.

Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.