AI Research Intern (Remote)

Lab space is in an incubator building with shared equipment and a loading dock. Bench scientists also order supplies, maintain equipment and write SOPs. Gowning for cleanroom work takes about 15 minutes each time.

The internship:

Bluffport is looking for a data science intern to help build and test prediction models for our Risk Modelling team. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Day to day:

Package a trained model behind a simple FastAPI endpoint for testing. Fine-tune small transformer models with Hugging Face for classification tasks. Write prompts and evaluation sets for LLM features, and score the outputs. Train baseline models with scikit-learn and compare them against simple rules. Engineer features from transaction, text or event data.

What we're looking for:

Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028. Based in the US for the duration of the internship. Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply. Coursework or projects in machine learning, such as regression, classification and clustering. Familiar with Jupyter or Google Colab. Working knowledge of SQL.

Nice to have:

Exposure to SageMaker, Vertex AI or Databricks notebooks.

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $43.00 to $46.50 per hour

What we offer:

Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager. Paid sick time. Paid company holidays. Company laptop.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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