AI Engineer Intern

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About Mandrake Bioworks

AI-first biotechnology company

intelligent systems that make biology programmable

gene editing technologies

longevity, de-aging, sustainable agriculture, and climate resilience

AI, life, and the future of civilization

What You’ll Work On

• Build, train, and evaluate

  foundation and generative models

  for biological data
• Develop

  data pipelines

  for large-scale datasets: curation, normalization, clustering, and annotation
• Work hands-on with

  pretraining, finetuning, and reinforcement-learning (RL/RLHF/DPO)

  pipelines
• Implement and optimize

  transformer-based architectures

  (language + multimodal models)
• Design evaluation and benchmarking frameworks for model performance and representation learning
• Collaborate with the biology and ML teams to deploy AI systems that directly inform experimental design
  

You’re a Great Fit If You

• Are strong in

  Python and PyTorch/JAX

  , and comfortable with deep-learning libraries (Lightning, HuggingFace, etc.)
• Have experience with

  GenAI / LLMs / diffusion models

  , especially pretraining or finetuning
• Can handle

  large datasets

  end-to-end (data wrangling, deduplication, clustering, sampling)
• Have solid understanding of

  transformers, embeddings, attention, and training optimization

• Have hands on experience with

  RL / RLHF / DPO

  and can implement and iterate on them
• Thrive in fast-moving environments and like taking full ownership of what you build
  

Why Mandrake

• Work on the frontier of AI × Biology - creating technologies that could redefine longevity, health, and the future of our planet.
• Join a small, high-velocity team where your ideas directly shape the company’s direction and breakthroughs.
• You’ll have extremely high ownership. Own what you build end to end - from idea to model to deployment.
• We operate like an applied research lab - rapid iteration, deep focus, and no bureaucracy.
• Work on real problems, not toy datasets. Build, publish, and innovate at the edge of science and engineering.
• Be part of something consequential. This isn’t just another startup - it’s the beginning of programmable life.
  

Passionate final year students who can join part time now and full-time early next year are welcome to apply.

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PS: We don't care about degrees or credentials. Send us proof of work!

Please apply on https://mandrakebio.notion.site/work-with-us