Sovereign AI Intern: Self-Hosted LLMs for Data Migration

ELCA Information Technology Ltd.; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 20,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic, multicultural team

Monthly AI meetups

Hackathons and Brownbag sessions

Job summary

ELCA Information Technology Ltd. in Zürich invites ambitious computer science students for a 6-month internship starting Spring 2027. You will test sovereign, locally-run AI to scope complex legacy data migrations and support fixed-price offers.

You will benchmark open-source LLMs, deploy models locally, design a prototype pipeline, uncover business rules, validate data quality and generate estimates with a locally-run model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Fluent in English; German or French is a plus.
• Experience with LLMs and local deployment is desirable.
• Interest in agentic AI and building benchmark pipelines.
• Basic understanding of database schemas and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Benchmark open-source LLMs that can be self-hosted on sovereign infra vs cloud models.
• Deploy and run candidate models locally with Ollama, vLLM or Hugging Face.
• Design and build a prototype agentic pipeline to analyze legacy schemas, code and data.
• Uncover hidden business rules in legacy systems, including .NET-based apps.
• Validate data consistency and quality and assess a representative migration case.
• Generate automated effort and complexity estimates and step-by-step migration guidelines.
• Define criteria and best practices for when a local model is accurate enough to replace manual scope.
• Evaluate resource, cost and licensing trade-offs between self-hosted and cloud models.
• Shape how we scope fixed-price services for data-sovereign clients.

Skills

Python programming

SQL

English proficiency

German or French

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor or Master in Computer Science

EPFL/ETH/University mention

Tools

Ollama

vLLM

Hugging Face

.NET familiarity

Job description

ELCA Information Technology Ltd. in Zürich invites ambitious computer science students for a 6-month internship starting Spring 2027. You will test sovereign, locally-run AI to scope complex legacy data migrations and support fixed-price offers.

You will benchmark open-source LLMs, deploy models locally, design a prototype pipeline, uncover business rules, validate data quality and generate estimates with a locally-run model.