Machine Learning Intern

Internship details

We are building text classification and search features using LLMs and classic ML. The intern will help with experiments, evaluation and data labelling. As an intern, you will:

1. Train baseline models with scikit-learn and compare them against simple rules.

2. Track experiments in MLflow or Weights & Biases so results can be reproduced

3. Package a trained model behind a simple FastAPI endpoint for testing

4. Engineer features from transaction, text or event data

5. Clean and prepare datasets in Python using pandas and NumPy

6. Run exploratory analysis and write up what you find in a Jupyter notebook

7. Pull data from BigQuery or PostgreSQL with SQL queries

8. Fine-tune small transformer models with Hugging Face for classification tasks

Skill(s) required: Machine Learning, Statistics, Python, Scikit-learn, SQL, Deep Learning, NumPy

Who should apply

1. Have a working laptop and a stable internet connection

2. Can start immediately or within two weeks

3. Can commit full time, from home, for the whole internship

Stipend: ₹40,000-₹46,000 per month

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Perks: Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers, Job offer on successful completion, Informal dress code, Internet allowance, Laptop provided for the internship, Certificate

Number of openings: 1

About Velvetside

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Chicago, Illinois and two nearshore delivery centres.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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