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# Machine Learning Engineering Intern at Cresta

- **Company:** Cresta
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2024-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cresta/jobs/4123863008

## Job description

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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pingwu/), 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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-thrun-59a0b273/), the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO,[Ping Wu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pingwu/), the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform,[and co-founder, Tim Shi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tianlinshi/), 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.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and deploy Cresta’s KA solutions and proprietary models.
- Focus on practical AI challenges such as improving reasoning, and evaluation in real-world scenarios.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end and back-end software engineers to integrate KA solutions into Cresta’s customer solutions.
- Lead initiatives to scale AI systems for production environments, ensuring performance and reliability across use cases.
- Contribute to solving cutting-edge problems in AI and help define the future roadmap for Cresta’s KA.
- Innovate and research ways to improve security, cost-efficiency, and reliability of AI systems.

Qualifications We Value:

- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with at least one deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).
- Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals and generative modeling.
- Ability to design and analyze experiments involving large-scale datasets.
- Work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire.

Perks & Benefits:

- $45-$70 per hour subject to taxes
- Lunch can be expensed (up to $25) while working in the office.
- PTO: 4 days

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

This posting will be used to fill a newly-created role.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

## About Cresta

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cresta is the generative AI platform for customer experience, unifying human and AI agents to drive measurable business outcomes for the world's largest enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $125M raised in 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, USA (with additional offices in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, London, Berlin, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Tokyo, Taipei, Melbourne)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Zayd Enam, Sebastian Thrun, Tim Shi

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Generative AI for Customer Experience (CX) / Contact Center AI
- **Target customers**: Enterprise (Fortune 500), B2B; verticals include customer service, sales, collections
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Turn every conversation into a competitive advantage" by combining the best of human intelligence and AI.

## Products & Services
- **Cresta AI Agent**: Autonomous voice and digital agent that resolves customer conversations end-to-end (SaaS/AI agent).
- **Cresta Agent Assist**: Real-time AI guidance, suggestions, and knowledge for human agents during live conversations (SaaS).
- **Cresta Conversation Intelligence**: AI that analyzes 100% of conversations to surface insights, behaviors, and revenue opportunities (SaaS).
- **Cresta Knowledge Agent**: Proactive, real-time answers from enterprise knowledge bases delivered to agents (SaaS).
- **Cresta Quality Management**: Automated QA across 100% of contact center conversations (SaaS).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised $270M+ (as of 2026)
- **Notable Investors**: Sequoia, Greylock, a16z, Tiger Global, World Innovation Lab (WiL)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 600+ employees across 10+ global hubs
  - Expanded into APAC and EMEA markets in 2025
  - Partnerships with TELUS Digital (June 2026) and New York Mets (June 2026)
  - Launched Conductor (AI agent development tool) in June 2026
  - Reported 20% higher revenue and 30pt NPS improvement for customers

## Competitive Advantages
- **Real-time transformer-based models** deployed at scale since 2018 (Intuit was first customer)
- **Patented conversational AI technology** (multiple patents secured)
- **Unified platform** that combines AI agents, human agent assist, and conversation intelligence
- **Human-centric AI approach** differentiating from pure automation players
- **Fortune 500 trust** and deep enterprise integrations

## Strategic Focus
- **Accelerate adoption of human-centric agentic AI** across global enterprises
- **Expand globally** with new hubs in APAC and EMEA
- **Continue product innovation** (e.g., Conductor for AI agent development, voice AI enhancements)
- **Deepen partnerships** with system integrators and telcos

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: "Mission is the boss" – decisions align with company goals, not hierarchy
- **Flexible work**: Hybrid model with many fully remote roles; offices in major cities worldwide
- **Global team**: 10+ hubs across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia
- **Perks & benefits**: Multiple medical/dental/vision plans, inclusive parental leave, generous time-off policy, workspace support, learning opportunities (hackathons, guest speakers)
- **Growth mindset**: Autonomy, high-impact roles, and continuous learning encouraged
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on AI/ML, real-time systems, and building at scale

## Sources
1. [Cresta Careers Page](https://cresta.com/careers)
2. [Cresta About Page](https://cresta.com/about-us)
3. [Cresta Official Website](https://cresta.com/)
4. [Cresta Greenhouse Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cresta)

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