DS/ML Intern
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Job overview
Fi is hiring a DS/ML Intern. The DS/ML Intern will contribute to building a product, not just a research lab, focusing on ML systems while being adaptable to various product needs. This includes thinking through product design, shipping backend or frontend code, and managing data pipelines. The ideal candidate is energized by a broad range of tasks and is not limited to a single area of expertise.
Key focus areas include Help build evaluation backbone for AI features, Learn to keep automated scores honest as models and prompts change, and Get hands-on with routing work across models.
Successful candidates bring Pursuing Bachelor’s In CS/DS/ML and Hands‑On DS/ML Experience. Important skills include Python, SQL, Statistics, Product Decisions, Backend Development, and Frontend Development. Preferred (not required): Evaluation Tooling For LLM Features, Observability Tooling For LLM Features, Information Retrieval, and Entity-Matching.
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Full job description
A builder mindset is the core of this role and where you'll spend most of your time. But we're a small team building a whole product, not a research lab. The best person here treats ML systems as their primary craft while staying willing to do whatever the product needs — thinking through the product itself, shipping backend or frontend code, untangling data pipelines. We're looking for someone energized by the breadth, not someone who wants to stay in their lane. What you'll work on Evaluation systems for AI features
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Help build the eval backbone our AI features ship against — failure taxonomies, LLM-as-judge rubrics, golden datasets, calibration against human judgment.
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Learn what it takes to keep automated scores honest as models and prompts change. A feature with no eval has no quality floor.
Model routing & inference economics
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Get hands-on with how we route work across models — balancing cost, quality, and latency per task.
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Help run the experiments that justify those choices and catch regressions.
Scoring, measurement & signal quality
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Work on turning noisy, real-world signals into scores you can actually trust — grounded in real statistical rigor, not vibes.
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Help move heuristic-driven approaches toward calibrated, monitored systems.
MLOps & production
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Get exposure to the full lifecycle — feature pipelines, model versioning, rollout, monitoring for drift and silent quality decay.
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Work alongside engineering to see how models get served reliably at low latency.
What we're looking for Must have
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Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in CS, DS, ML, or a related field.
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Some hands-on DS/ML experience — coursework, personal projects, research, or a prior internship — where you've built and run something end to end, not just notebooks.
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Comfort with Python and working SQL knowledge.
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Basic grounding in applied statistics — you can explain what a metric means and when it might be misleading.
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A builder's instinct — genuinely curious about product decisions, backend, or frontend, not just the modeling layer.
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Some exposure to LLMs — prompting, using APIs, or experimenting with model behavior.
Nice to have
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Any exposure to evaluation or observability tooling for LLM features.
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Coursework or projects in information retrieval, entity-matching, or record-linkage.
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Interest in developer-productivity, code analytics, or DevEx data.
We aspire to create an inclusive culture of diverse people not just because it's the right thing to do but because heterogeneity inspires us and is more fun! We employ people solely on merit and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.
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