AI Research Intern

About Laurelrow Labs:

Laurelrow Labs builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors.

About the role:

Our data team is small, three data scientists and one data engineer. The intern will work on one main project with a clear goal and a mentor. Our headquarters is in Sydney, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Sydney team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours overlap with Sydney business hours until mid-afternoon. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

What you'll do:

• Document assumptions, data sources and results in Confluence or Notion.
• Engineer features from transaction, text or event data.
• Clean and prepare datasets in Python using pandas and NumPy.
• Present findings to the team in a short slide deck every few weeks.
• Pull data from BigQuery or PostgreSQL with SQL queries.
• Evaluate models using precision, recall, AUC and other metrics that fit the problem.
• Train baseline models with scikit-learn and compare them against simple rules.

Who can apply:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Strong Python, including pandas, NumPy and Matplotlib.
• Coursework or projects in machine learning, such as regression, classification and clustering.
• Available at least 30 hours a week, with some flexibility during exam weeks.
• Laptop with 8 GB RAM or more and a stable internet connection (no GPU needed, we provide cloud compute)
• Familiar with Jupyter or Google Colab.
• A GitHub repo or Kaggle notebook showing at least one ML project end to end.

Nice to have:

• Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Some work with LLM APIs, embeddings or retrieval.

What you'll learn:

• Weekly mentorship from a senior data scientist.
• You will take one model from raw data to an evaluated prototype.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $40.50-$46.50 per hour

What we offer:

• Home office setup stipend.
• Final presentation to leadership.
• Paid sick time.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Laurelrow Labs.