9 Internships You Should Apply For Right Now To Get A Jump Start In Your ML Career

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Internships are a great place if one has to start in this glamorous field of machine learning, to know one’s capability, skills, interest, before getting into an organisation full time and dedicating your entire self for the work of machine learning. Here is a list of top current internships in organisations in the area of machine learning in India.

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1. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO):

About The Organisation: It is an agency of the Republic of India, charged with the military’s research and development and works under the Department of Defence Research and Development of Ministry of Defence. DRDO works towards enhancing self-reliance in defence systems and undertakes design and development leading to the production of world class weapon systems and equipment in accordance with the expressed needs and the qualitative requirements laid down by the defence services. It works in various areas like aeronautics, armaments, combat vehicles, electronics, instrumentation engineering systems, missiles, materials, naval systems, advanced computing, simulation and life sciences.

Job Description: The internship involves research and development in the domain of deep learning in computer vision using Python and ML. This is an excellent opportunity for people who want to want to get into the research field of ML. DRDO is a very prestigious organization in the area of defence research.

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Skills: Python, Machine Learning.

Starting date: 1 Jan – 7 Jan 2019.

Duration: 6 months.

Location: Delhi

2. Prayagad Pvt Ltd:

About The Organisation: Prayagad, also called Orate Health, is a healthcare startup developing technology products focussed on clinical aspects of healthcare. One of the initial challenges that Prayagad has set out to solve is that of electronic health records. Using advanced machine learning techniques and visualization tools, it is focussed on reducing the overall time spent by the doctor in capturing EHR by 50%.

Job Description: Started by founders having in-depth experience in building and delivering healthcare products that are used by top hospitals across India, Prayagad already has engagement with a top hospital chain. It also has a linguistic-based NLP problem and the selected interns will contribute to these problems. The interns will primarily work on machine learning based NLP problems while there will be a lot of core work using NLP, Java, Python, J2EE, data structures and algorithms.

Skills:  NLP, Java, Python, J2EE, algorithms, data structures

Starting date: 22 November to 22 Dec 2018

Duration: 3 months

Location: Bengaluru

3. Greendeck:

About The Organisation: Founded in 2017, Greendeck is an Indo-UK-based SaaS dynamic pricing engine for businesses that allowing to give the right price to the right customer at the right time, with offices in London and Indore. It helps brands and retailers with the right competitive intelligence they need to drive speed, efficiency and better decision making.

Job Description: Involves working in Python to build and train machine learning models and build a scalable data pipeline. It also gives an opportunity to research on new developments in technologies of NLP and image recognition. Although a startup, it proves a good start to someone who is beginning to incline towards making a career in ML.

Skills: Python, ML.

Start date: 1st Jan – 15th Jan

Duration: 6 months.

Location: Indore

4. Graffersid:

About The Organisation: Graffersid is an award-winning website and mobile application development company focused on startups. Its ambition is to empower startups and companies to build and grow great product/services.

Job Description: The internship will give a chance to work on ML from scratch. With key programming skills, the intern’s job will be to design ML applications, research, build, train and test the models.

Starting date: 20 November – 20 December 2018

Duration: 2 months

Location: Indore

5. LexInnova:

About The Organisation: LexInnova is a Silicon Valley-based start-up company whose product named LexInsight utilizes AI algorithms and marketplace model to match freelancing legal professionals with the right projects from law firms. The founders of the company had amazing backgrounds in law, engineering, machine learning, US Army, basketball, wine-blogging, diplomacy, and academics. Inspired by a common vision to build a transformative product, they came together and hit on a great idea at just the right time.

Job Description: Backed by Silicon Valley, it’s a great opportunity to work in LexInnova. The interns will get a chance to participate in cutting-edge research in AI, machine intelligence and machine learning applications and help develop solutions for real world, large-scale problems. It also involves automating data collection, developing and maintaining analytical models, and generating reports and dashboards that measure the performance of the platform.

Skills: Java, Python, SQL, data analytics, MS-Excel. Apart from these skills, the programme prefers students pursuing or completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, ECE, Mathematics or Statistics. Applicants are expected to have experiencewith one or more general purpose programming languages including C/C++, MATLAB, apart from Java and Python, and must be able to leverage tools like SQL, R, Python and Tableau. Apart from that it also demands a previous data science & analytics-related internship or work experience or research.

Start date: 20 November to 20 December 2018.

Duration: 6 months.

Location: Gurgaon.

6. Saarthi.ai:

About The Organisation: It is a multi-lingual AI Assistant to hyper-personalized to each individual that helps to get around their smartphone, consume content and order things, in their native language, via voice or text. To empower e-commerce, Saarthi accompanies the customer 24*7 converting leads and answering business queries.

Job Description: The internship involves tasks like web scrapping and language modelling. It also needs the interns to read and implement research papers in the form of Python code. Again, a good start for a beginner in ML and NLP.

Skills: Python, ML, NLP.

Start date: 24 December 2018 to 14 January 2019

Duration: 3 months

Location: Bengaluru

7. Scandid:

About The Organisation: Scandid is a multiple award-winning mobile shopping companion that scans online & local stores for products, deals, and savings to delight users. Scandid simplifies shopping on mobile by providing barcode scanning for price comparison, location-based local retailer search and one-touch checkout option. It provides an omnichannel shopping experience and helps users to find the right product for their needs, coupons, customer reviews, and specifications.

Job Description: The interns will have to work on recommendation systems, apply ML and data science techniques to user-products interaction data, work with extensive feature engineering and data analysis, create scalable and automated python programs and configure databases (Mongodb, MySQL, Redis).

Skills: Python, ML, Monogodb, MySQL, Redis.

Start date: 24 December 2018 to 24 January 2019

Duration: 2 months

8. Vahan:

About The Organisation: “Enabling Jobs for the Next Billion Internet Users.”, is Vahan’s tagline. It uses AI to match job seekers with employers inside messaging apps. A web-based dashboard allows employers to track data for business intelligence. They have a virtual assistant that is customizable to align with employers’ recruitment, training and communication needs. It is building an AI-driven assistant on WhatsApp to bring jobs to the next billion internet users globally.

Job Description: Interns have to work in data cleaning, pre-processing and analysis. They have to develop state of the art-ML models for chatbot, conduct research in ML/NLP domain and look for/implement solutions to improve chatbot performance. It is a good option for people looking for research in ML and NLP.

Skills: Python, data analytics, NLP, ML.

Start date: 24 December 2018 to 22 January 2019.

Duration: 5 months

Location: Bengaluru

9. Analytics India Magazine:

About The Organisation: Analytics India Magazine is India’s most trusted platform for analytics, data science, and big data, dedicated to passionately championing and promoting the ecosystem in India.

Job Description: The interns will have to build cutting-edge data science and machine learning hackathons and competitions, work with the internal tech team at Analytics India Magazine to build tools for end users and work with a community of AIM and MachineHack users to constantly seek feedback and make improvements.

Skills: A bachelor’s a degree in the quantitative field is desirable, with an experience in working on a diverse set of machine learning and AI problems, Python programming and excellent written and verbal communication, since it demands writing articles on data science and AI. Should be comfortable with deep learning frameworks like Tensorflow and Pytorch.

Start date: Immediately

Duration: 3 months

Location: Bengaluru