Machine Learning Engineering Intern
Cresta, Toronto, Canada (Hybrid)
- Pay
- Not listed by the employer
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Level
- Intern
- Area
- ML / AI engineering
- Posted
- Sep 11, 2024
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About the role
Cresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day.
Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu, founded and led Google's Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences.
Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.
Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.
Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.
About the role:
At Cresta, the Knowledge Assist (KA) team develops AI solutions for the contact center industry, focusing on improving agent productivity by providing access to the right knowledge at the right time.
Our current projects:
- Generative Knowledge Assist (GenKA): Real-time, context-aware suggestions for contact center agents, integrating with multiple knowledge bases to streamline information retrieval, reduce agent effort, and ensure accurate responses.
- Knowledge Search (KS): A search experience tailored for contact center agents. Built on the GenKA stack, it aims to evolve into an enterprise search solution beyond contact centers.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): A critical project underpinning GenKA, KS, and VA, enabling efficient retrieval of relevant knowledge content and generating read-to-use agent responses grounded in knowledge.
Our internships offer a dynamic, fast-paced environment where you’ll collaborate with top researchers and engineers in the field. We provide opportunities for interns to make significant contributions to AI research and apply novel techniques at scale.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI at Cresta by solving complex problems and bringing breakthrough AI advancements into production environments.
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