Artificial Intelligence Intern

@ Abekus

About the Company

Abekus is a lean, fast-moving startup seeking AI interns who are curious, hands-on, and eager to apply AI in practical scenarios. You will work directly with the founding team and witness how real-world AI products are built.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and fine-tuning of ML models using Python and PyTorch.
• Experiment with modern LLMs and generative AI models to address product challenges.
• Utilize tools and frameworks like Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI API, and LlamaIndex for classification, generation, and retrieval tasks.
• Build and optimize training scripts, inference pipelines, and evaluation tools.
• Conduct literature reviews and repo deep-dives to integrate cutting-edge AI ideas into production.
• Assist with cleaning, preprocessing, and analyzing datasets.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and founders to prototype and test AI-powered features.

Skills & Qualifications

• Strong Python programming skills.
• Good understanding of machine learning fundamentals including loss functions and metrics.
• Hands-on experience with deep learning libraries such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Familiarity with NLP and generative AI tools like Hugging Face Transformers, OpenAI, Claude, LLaMA, or LangChain.
• Awareness of current trends in the AI/LLM space and a proactive mindset.
• Bonus: Experience with AI/ML side projects, GitHub contributions, Kaggle competitions, or open-source work.

Benefits

• Mentorship and direct collaboration with the founding team.
• Real-world experience applying AI to product use cases.
• Ownership of small, impactful features and experiments.
• Fully remote and async-friendly work culture.
• Opportunity for long-term collaboration based on performance.

Key skills/competency

• Python
• PyTorch
• Machine Learning
• LLMs
• Transformers
• LangChain
• OpenAI API
• Data Preprocessing
• NLP
• Remote