Internship - Machine Learning Engineer

Smule has been on a mission to bring the world together through music since 2008. Music is much more than listening… it's about creating, sharing, discovering, participating, and connecting with people. With dozens of millions of monthly active users creating over 20 million songs every day, Smule is connecting people all over the world through the joy of making music and transforming the music landscape from one of passive listening to collaborative creative expression and active engagement. About the Role: We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to own the end-to-end lifecycle of ML models in production at Smule, from training and optimization through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. You will work closely with research scientists to bring models off the bench and into scalable, reliable systems that serve millions of users. The ideal candidate is a strong engineer first, with deep practical knowledge of ML systems, a passion for reliability, and an eye for performance. We strongly encourage candidates with non-traditional backgrounds to apply. If your path into ML engineering came through backend systems, DevOps, audio software, data engineering, or another field, we want to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing: Design, build, and maintain production ML pipelines encompassing data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment. Optimize models for production constraints including latency, throughput, memory footprint, and cost, using