Artificial Intelligence Intern

Better Direct is seeking a motivated AI Intern who is passionate about large language models, machine learning, and applied AI systems. The internship focuses on building real-world AI systems and involves working on projects related to LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and AI-powered document processing systems.

Responsibilities:

• Build and experiment with open-source LLM and SLM pipelines
• Design and implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
• Develop AI pipelines capable of processing documents, PDFs, and structured data
• Work with embedding models and vector search systems
• Implement prompt engineering, model evaluation, and response optimization
• Assist with fine-tuning or adapting open-source models when necessary
• Build ingestion pipelines for PDFs, documents, and datasets
• Implement document chunking, embedding generation, and indexing strategies
• Work with vector databases to support semantic search and retrieval
• Optimize pipelines for latency, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Evaluate different open-source models and architectures
• Compare embedding models and retrieval methods
• Test improvements in RAG performance and hallucination reduction
• Explore emerging techniques in Vision Language Models (VLMs)
• Work with engineers to integrate AI components into applications
• Document experiments and technical findings
• Participate in weekly discussions on AI architecture decisions and improvements