AI Engineer – Intern

Overview

About the Role
We are seeking a highly driven technical problem solver to support the end-to-end development of 0→1 AI applications powering high-value, business-critical initiatives. This internship sits at the intersection of AI applications, engineering, and customer problem-solving.

You will contribute throughout the full lifecycle—from concept through prototype and deployment—working on architecture design, hands-on experimentation, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, data, business) to solve high-impact AI problems with AI solutions.
• Translate business ideas and complex problem statements into scalable AI-based technical solutions and prototypes.
• Design, implement, and optimize prompt engineering strategies (prompt design, evaluation, templates, guardrails) to improve model accuracy, reliability, and user experience.
• Contribute to the architecture and delivery of 0→1 AI applications, including experimentation, MVP development, deployment, and iterative improvements.
• Communicate project insights, progress, and challenges to leadership as part of flagship AI initiatives.
• Support hands-on development of model pipelines, integrations, and cloud-based infrastructure to enable AI functionality.
• Help establish best practices and technical standards for building safe, reliable, and scalable AI solutions.

Skills:

• AI Product Development: Design and prototype AI-powered features from 0→1, building demos and POCs to validate feasibility while collaborating cross-functionally and communicating strategy to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Prompt Engineering & LLM Operations: Develop and optimize prompts with guardrails, implement safety measures and hallucination mitigation, and tune performance across LLM and RAG workflows
• Retrieval & RAG Systems: Engineer retrieval pipelines using embeddings and vector databases, optimize context through chunking and metadata enrichment, and build hybrid rule-based + model-based systems
• AI Systems Architecture: Design robust LLM/RAG pipelines with intelligent error recovery, human-in-the-loop workflows, and policy enforcement guardrails while optimizing for performance, latency, and cost
• Backend Development: Build production-ready backend services and APIs using Python to expose AI functionality at scale
• Model Evaluation & Quality Assurance: Develop comprehensive evaluation methodologies including automated and human assessments for safety, hallucination risk, and UX quality while monitoring for drift and degradation
• AI Research & Innovation: Assess emerging foundation models, experiment with fine-tuning approaches, evaluate hosting infrastructure, and maintain expertise in evolving LLM best practices
• Strategic Execution: Balance rapid experimentation with measured business impact, integrating user feedback iteratively while managing ambiguity in emerging AI capabilities

Non-Negotiables

• High ownership and accountability
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation
• Bias toward action, measurable outcomes
• Ability to educate stakeholders on AI value and constraints Joii

Preferred Experience

• Prior exposure to building AI-powered applications
• Experience with:
• Prompt engineering and evaluation
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge graphs, or agent-based orchestration
• Fine-tuning LLMs or training domain-specific models
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and modern development workflows

What You’ll Gain:

• Exposure to real-world enterprise AI challenges
• Hands-on experience shipping 0→1 products
• Mentorship from experienced AI engineers and product leaders
• Opportunity to influence high-visibility AI initiatives

Security & Data Handling
All engineers are expected to handle sensitive data responsibly in compliance with the DPDP Act, ISO-27001:2022, and Pratilipi’s internal security policies — ensuring data privacy, confidentiality, and NDA obligations at all times.