ML Engineer Intern — Real-World Data Pipelines

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Gecko Robotics is seeking an AI/ML Engineering Intern to join our NYC-based engineering team for Summer 2027. This full-time, onsite internship runs Monday through Friday and focuses on building ML pipelines and models from real NDT data gathered by wall-climbing robots.

You will frame problems, develop data pipelines in Python, train and evaluate models, and present results with recommended next steps at internship end. Authorization to work in the U.S. is required.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in computer science, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or a related technical discipline, with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and May 2028.
• Ability to work onsite in New York, Monday through Friday, for the full Summer 2027 internship.
• Strong programming experience in Python, including writing well-structured, tested code beyond notebooks.
• Coursework or project experience in machine learning, including training and evaluating models on real datasets.
• Working understanding of linear algebra, probability, and statistics.
• Working familiarity with Git or similar version control systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain results, quantify uncertainty, and collaborate on ambiguous problems.
• Ability to independently close knowledge gaps, stay organized, and learn from feedback.

Responsibilities

• Own a scoped machine learning project from problem framing through evaluation and integration, under the guidance of experienced engineers.
• Build data pipelines in Python that clean, label, and structure NDT sensor data, documents, or operational records for model training and inference.
• Train, evaluate, and iterate on models, and design evaluations that reflect how the output will be used in the field.
• Integrate a model or LLM-based workflow into a service or tool that other engineers and Forward Deployment Engineers can use.
• Investigate failure modes on messy, real-world data, document what you find, and recommend what to fix next.
• Use version control, code review, testing, and experiment tracking to produce work others can reproduce and build on.
• Present your project, results, and recommended next steps at the end of the internship.

Skills

Python programming

Git/version control

Machine learning coursework

Communication skills

Data pipelines

Onsite in New York

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in CS/EE/Math/Physics

Tools

Git

Airflow

Docker

GCP

LLM APIs

SQL

Job description

Gecko Robotics is seeking an AI/ML Engineering Intern to join our NYC-based engineering team for Summer 2027. This full-time, onsite internship runs Monday through Friday and focuses on building ML pipelines and models from real NDT data gathered by wall-climbing robots.

You will frame problems, develop data pipelines in Python, train and evaluate models, and present results with recommended next steps at internship end. Authorization to work in the U.S. is required.