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AI/ML Engineer Intern

Fine-tune medical LLMs that save lives

Nairobi, Kenya (Hybrid)Unpaid internshipIntern

Internship format

Currently unpaid — built for candidates optimizing for impact, learning, and mission alignment.

About This Role

Work directly on Pawanax's Pawa-Med™ Intelligence Engine — fine-tuning medical foundation models on African disease datasets, building RAG pipelines for clinical knowledge retrieval, and pushing the frontier of AI diagnostics on the continent.

We are prioritizing builders who are deeply curious, mission-driven, and excited to grow fast while solving real African healthcare problems.

What You'll Do

  • Fine-tune LLMs (MedGemma, LLaMA, Mistral) on African clinical datasets
  • Build and optimize RAG pipelines for medical knowledge retrieval
  • Implement model quantization for edge/low-resource deployment
  • Design evaluation benchmarks for African healthcare contexts
  • Collaborate with clinicians on clinical validation of AI outputs
  • Contribute to research papers and technical blog posts

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing BSc/MSc in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field
  • Strong Python skills (PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers)
  • Familiarity with LLM fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT)
  • Understanding of NLP fundamentals and transformer architecture
  • Passion for AI in healthcare and African market contexts

Nice to Have

  • Experience with medical NLP datasets (MIMIC, PubMed)
  • Knowledge of RLHF or DPO alignment techniques
  • Contributions to open-source ML projects
  • Familiarity with MLflow, Weights & Biases, or similar

What You Get

  • GPU compute credits
  • Research publication support
  • Mentorship from senior AI engineers
  • Fast-track to full-time offer

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