Machine Learning Engineering Intern

Who we are

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

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. Remote within the US. The team meets in Houston once a quarter, travel covered. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

Day to day

• Package a trained model behind a simple FastAPI endpoint for testing.
• Evaluate models using precision, recall, AUC and other metrics that fit the problem.
• Fine-tune small transformer models with Hugging Face for classification tasks.
• Run exploratory analysis and write up what you find in a Jupyter notebook.
• Write prompts and evaluation sets for LLM features, and score the outputs.
• Label and review samples of training data to check quality.

What we're looking for

• 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 or 2028.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Laptop with 8 GB RAM or more and a stable internet connection (no GPU needed, we provide cloud compute)
• Clear written English, since most discussions happen in docs and Slack threads.
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science or a related field, graduating in 2027 or 2028.
• Working knowledge of SQL.
• Available at least 30 hours a week, with some flexibility during exam weeks.
• Coursework or projects in machine learning, such as regression, classification and clustering.

Nice to have

• Exposure to SageMaker, Vertex AI or Databricks notebooks.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $39.50 - $51.00 per hour

What we offer

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.
• Paid company holidays.
• Final presentation to leadership.
• Paid sick time.
• Company laptop.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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