Remote ML Engineer Intern: AI for Science & Data

Object Tech, Inc.; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

CPT/OPT support

Mentorship and referrals

Job summary

Object Tech, Inc. seeks a Machine Learning Engineer Intern to join a team building an AI agent for scientific data. You will explore real‑world tables, infer relationships, and help integrate ML techniques with LLMs to deliver practical AI systems.

This fully remote internship offers hands‑on experience, collaboration with domain experts, and opportunities for future growth, including recommendations and referrals. CPT/OPT support is provided for students.

Qualifications

• Solid grounding in machine learning fundamentals.
• Hands‑on database experience, including SQL, schema design, and joins.

Responsibilities

• Exploring and profiling messy, real‑world scientific tables (CSV/Excel).
• Extracting structure and metadata.
• Contributing to a relationship‑inference pipeline that combines classic data‑integration signals with LLM‑based semantic reasoning over column meanings and provenance.
• Supporting the development of evaluation methods that measure system performance against expert‑provided ground truth.
• Load, clean, and normalize heterogeneous tabular datasets and build reusable data‑profiling tooling.
• Prototype and iterate on an LLM/agent pipeline that classifies how pairs of tables relate (parallel / shared / hierarchical).
• Design and maintain benchmarks and metrics to evaluate system accuracy, and run experiments to improve performance.
• Work with database schemas, including joins, keys, and data modeling, to represent and query discovered relationships.
• Collaborate with mentors and domain scientists to understand requirements and turn feedback into concrete improvements.
• Document findings, experiments, and technical approaches throughout the project.

Skills

Machine learning fundamentals

SQL

Education

BS/MS in Data Science or Computer Science

Tools

LangChain

Job description

Object Tech, Inc. seeks a Machine Learning Engineer Intern to join a team building an AI agent for scientific data. You will explore real‑world tables, infer relationships, and help integrate ML techniques with LLMs to deliver practical AI systems.

This fully remote internship offers hands‑on experience, collaboration with domain experts, and opportunities for future growth, including recommendations and referrals. CPT/OPT support is provided for students.