Role: AI Research Intern – Applied AI (3–6 months, Paid)

Company: Raven (YC S22)

Location: Bangalore, India (On-site preferred; Remote OK)

Employment Type: Internship (Full-time during internship)

Compensation: Paid internship

About Us

Raven is a YC-backed startup building AI assistants for manufacturing plants. We’re combining decades of industrial know-how with modern AI to help teams make faster, safer decisions from unified operational data. We’re a small, focused team in Bangalore, backed by top investors, and we move quickly from idea → real-world impact.

Role Summary

Hands-on applied AI internship focused on model evaluation and fine-tuning across vision/OCR/LLMs, with a path to turning promising results into production-ready components.

What You’ll Work On

• Run experiments with open-source and commercial models (vision, OCR, LLMs).
• Fine-tune on custom datasets; build and run benchmarks (accuracy, latency, footprint).
• Prototype workflows that combine perception (text, layout, symbols) with reasoning (graphs, classifications).
• Document methods/results; collaborate with engineers to integrate into product.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong Python; experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Prior exposure to training/fine-tuning ML models (projects or internships).
• Clear, structured communication; comfort with messy, real-world data.

Duration & Schedule

• 3–6 months; Full-time commitment during the internship.

Why Join Raven

• Work on high-impact, real industrial problems few startups tackle.
• Access unique datasets (documents, diagrams, logs) and ship outcomes quickly.
• Learn directly from a small founding team; see your work move from research to deployment.

Equal Opportunity

Raven is an equal opportunity employer. We do not charge fees at any stage of recruitment.