Applied AI & Data Governance Intern

Company : Datafin; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 78,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Datafin in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, offers an applied-AI internship focused on preparing data for AI workloads and supporting a governed AI platform. Trainees work under supervision with a mentored pathway, learning how AI is used safely on sensitive data in a regulated business.

You will contribute to data preparation, testing AI use cases, and documenting validation evidence while adhering to data-minimisation rules and governance guidelines.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed studies in data science, CS, information systems, statistics, maths, engineering, or related fields.
• Exposure to APIs, notebooks, retrieval/vector search concepts, or LLM tooling.
• Evidence of an AI project solving a real problem and awareness of responsible-AI concerns.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, clean, validate, and document datasets used by AI and search workloads.
• Support the in-house governed AI platform with ingestion, indexing, configuration, and health checks.
• Test and evaluate AI-assisted use cases against defined success criteria.

Skills

Data Science

Python

APIs

Notebooks

Vector search

Education

Relevant degree field (in progress or completed)

Tools

LLM tooling

Job description

Datafin in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, offers an applied-AI internship focused on preparing data for AI workloads and supporting a governed AI platform. Trainees work under supervision with a mentored pathway, learning how AI is used safely on sensitive data in a regulated business.

You will contribute to data preparation, testing AI use cases, and documenting validation evidence while adhering to data-minimisation rules and governance guidelines.