NLP Intern

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

About the role:

Remote ML internship focused on real company data, not Kaggle datasets. Most of the time goes into cleaning data and checking whether a model actually helps. Our headquarters is in Chicago, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Chicago, and the stipend is paid monthly in Indian rupees. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT.

Responsibilities:

• Present findings to the team in a short slide deck every few weeks.
• Evaluate models using precision, recall, AUC and other metrics that fit the problem.
• Package a trained model behind a simple FastAPI endpoint for testing.
• Write prompts and evaluation sets for LLM features, and score the outputs.
• Clean and prepare datasets in Python using pandas and NumPy.
• Run exploratory analysis and write up what you find in a Jupyter notebook.

Requirements:

• Can start immediately or within two weeks.
• Have a working laptop and a stable internet connection.
• Women starting or restarting their careers are encouraged to apply.
• Basic statistics: distributions, hypothesis testing, sampling.
• Familiar with Jupyter or Google Colab.
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science or a related field, graduating in 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Coursework or projects in machine learning, such as regression, classification and clustering.
• A GitHub repo or Kaggle notebook showing at least one ML project end to end.
• Laptop with 8 GB RAM or more and a stable internet connection (no GPU needed, we provide cloud compute)

Bonus points:

• Exposure to SageMaker, Vertex AI or Databricks notebooks.

What you get out of it:

• Certificate and a recommendation letter, plus a pre-placement interview for strong interns.
• How to judge whether a model is worth deploying, not just whether its accuracy is high.
• Weekly mentorship from a senior data scientist.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: ₹53,000 - ₹66,000/month

What we offer:

• Certificate.
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.
• Job offer on successful completion.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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