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.
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.
Skills: Python, Machine Learning.
Starting date: 1 Jan – 7 Jan 2019.
Duration: 6 months.
Location: Delhi
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2. Amazon:
About The Organisation: Amazon is one of the world’s largest online retailer and a prominent cloud services provider. They carry out research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of the customers around the world.
Job description: Use ML, data mining, statistical techniques to create new scalable solutions for business problems. Automate and optimise the key processes for Amazon.Design, develop and evaluate models for predictive learning. The intern is expected to research and implement ML and statistical approaches. Amazon is looking for someone who is experienced in predictive modelling and analysis, and also a PhD in the relevant field.
Skills: Java/Scala/C++, Perl/Python, R, Matlab or similar scripting language.
Start date: Immediately
Location: Bangalore
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3. Mobius:
About The Organisation: Mobius is a data and eCommerce solutions provider. It uses contemporary technologies and tools coupled with human expertise to deliver accurate data, information and knowledge.
Job Description: The internship will need the intern to work on ML and conduct data analysis. He will also need to handle Python projects.
Skills: Machine learning
Starting date: 20th November to 20th December
Duration: 2 months
Location: Chennai
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4. Postman:
About The Organisation: Postman is an API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide. It is an elegant, flexible tool used to build connected software via APIs — quickly, easily and accurately. Postman is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded and is privately held, with funding from Nexus Venture Partners.
Job Description: The intern will work closely with data engineering and partner teams to author and develop core data sets, within the company’s data warehouse and BI tool, to empower operational and exploratory analyses.
He will also build dashboards to drive awareness and understanding of metrics and experiment results. It is a great learning opportunity for
Skills: Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science/Engineering or another quantitative discipline. Experience in data processing, analytics, business intelligence, and reporting is a plus.
Starting date: Immediately
Location: Bangalore
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. 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 experience with 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.
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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
They also have a technical journalism internship, which involves writing articles on analytics and and artificial intelligence and performing research on trending innovations in this area.
