Ai/Machine Learning Engineering Intern
- Countries
- USA
- Job Types
- software & tech, early-career & research, operations
- Experience
- entry
- Organization Types
- construction & infrastructure, robotics, startups
- Location
- New York City
- Posted Date
- Company
- Gecko Robotics
- Salary
- $50 – $90 per hour
AI Summary
Job Description
The AI/ML Engineering Intern will work on a defined project to build models and systems that analyze inspection data from wall-climbing robots. Responsibilities include owning a machine learning project, building data pipelines in Python, training and evaluating models, integrating workflows into services, and investigating failure modes on real-world data.
Hard Requirements
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in computer science, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or a related technical discipline, with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and May 2028
- Ability to work onsite in New York, Monday through Friday, for the full Summer 2027 internship
- Strong programming experience in Python, including writing well-structured, tested code beyond notebooks
- Coursework or project experience in machine learning, including training and evaluating models on real datasets
- Working understanding of linear algebra, probability, and statistics
- Working familiarity with Git or similar version control systems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to independently close knowledge gaps, stay organized, and learn from feedback
Soft Requirements
- Engineer who happens to work in machine learning
- Cares whether a model works on real data
- Comfortable owning the code around the model
- Methodical approach to new problems
- Clear communication about results and uncertainty
- Excited to be the first person to look at a problem
- Graduate-level coursework or research in machine learning, signal processing, or computer vision
- Experience taking a model beyond a notebook
- Experience with LLM APIs, retrieval, information extraction, or document understanding
- Experience with time-series or sensor data
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP, and to containers such as Docker
- Interest in industrial, defense, or infrastructure applications