AI Engineer Intern
Job Summary
About us
Owkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models multimodal patient data and agentic software. At the heart of this system is Owkin K an AI copilot and its new LLM fine-tuned on biology called Owkin Zero used by researchers clinicians and drug developers to better understand biology validate scientific hypotheses and deliver better diagnostics and therapies faster.
Position is based in our Paris office.
Please submit your CV in English
About the role:
As a AI Engineer Intern you will contribute to build the data pipelines fuelling the leading Agentic AI product for biomedical researchers by optimising workflows integrate new biological datasets and develop new features within the team. Youll be working on a real-time system that integrates LLMs tool-calling and interactive UI elements making sure our users can seamlessly engage with complex domain specific data.
This role requires integrating in a multi-disciplinary team (Software Engineers Data Engineers MLEngineers Data Scientists) working on Owkins agentic product: K: Multimodal Context team. The team is responsible for providing the right information to the orchestration through tool calling.
The internship is expected to involve contributions across these different expertises in various parts of the product.
The internship will be supervised by a dedicated member of the team and the whole team will ensure to set it up for success.
In particular you will:
Onboard on Owkins agentic data pipelines K ecosystem and learn to manipulate Owkins proprietary biological datasets
Grasp a firm understanding of the data production pipeline identify bottlenecks and potential improvements.
Address user feedback from multiple parties: internal biomedical team pharma clients students researchers to continuously increase the capacities of K
Improve developer experience: Build manual workflows (documentation & make commands) continuous integration / delivery (CI / CD) workflows (github actions) orchestrated workflows (Airflow) dashboards (Grafana) in order to continuously elevate the engineering standards of the development of the product
Experiment innovative improvements and Proofs of Concept on a sub-component of the product.
At the end of the internship we expect you to:
Make meaningful contributions to the codebase that directly impact the data production/integration into K
Define and implement cross-modality complex agentic workflows involving biological data
Write and review high-quality code respecting the industry standards (CI/CD workflows linting typing)
About you
Master student or equivalent level (ideally end of study internship)
Youre driven by impact excited to empower biomedical researchers with intuitive AI-driven tools that unlock scientific discovery.
Strong collaborative skills with an open pragmatic mindset; you thrive in multidisciplinary environments that involve people with diverse backgrounds.
Clear and effective communicator who can translate technical complexity into actionable decisions for the team.
Proven track record of agentic AI or data engineering projects
Fluent English both written and spoken.
Stack: Python Airflow Grafana Github
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What we offer
Flexible work organization
Friendly and informal working environment
Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds
Recruitment Process & Security
Please complete the form and submit your CV.
Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex gender sexual orientation age color religion national origin protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
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