Summer ML Intern: Dairy Animal Analytics & Vision

Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC); Hamilton; On-site; NZD 12,357,000 - 16,476,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Job summary

Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) invites students to join a paid summer internship focused on machine learning for dairy animal assessment. The project covers capturing video and spatial data on farms, 3D feature extraction, and building pipelines to generate usable outputs for future research and product development.

The role requires on-site work at LIC Newstead in Hamilton, with time spent on farm data collection and on documentation.

Qualifications

• Legally permitted to work in New Zealand.
• NZQA level 6-10 degree in a relevant field.
• Studying or have studied science/tech/engineering/design/business at a NZ tertiary education institute.
• Be able to work on-site at LIC Newstead Hamilton for the duration of the internship.
• Paid internship: $29.90 per hour; 10 weeks; minimum 30 hours/week; maximum 400 hours; to 31 March 2027.

Responsibilities

• Assist with on-farm video capture.
• Annotate key visual features and prepare datasets for model development.
• Develop a prototype workflow turning video or spatial data into usable analytical outputs.
• Organise and validate captured footage.
• Progress the project toward a practical proof of concept.

Skills

Python programming

Computer vision

Machine learning

Image/video analysis

Applied AI

Data handling

Data cleaning

Exploratory analysis

Annotation workflows

Written communication

Dairy systems curiosity

On-farm data capture

3D data capture

Education

NZQA level 6-10 degree

Tools

Pandas

Polars

NumPy

Job description

Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) invites students to join a paid summer internship focused on machine learning for dairy animal assessment. The project covers capturing video and spatial data on farms, 3D feature extraction, and building pipelines to generate usable outputs for future research and product development.

The role requires on-site work at LIC Newstead in Hamilton, with time spent on farm data collection and on documentation.