Hybrid Mandatory Intern – AI Engineering, Smart Energy

at GreenPocket GmbH

• Job title: Mandatory Intern – AI Engineering, Smart Energy
• Job type: Internship
• Experience level: Entry level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cologne, Germany

About the role

• Intern supporting AI-Engineering at GreenPocket, a startup in smart energy solutions. Involved in projects around AI for energy management and data processing.

Responsibilities

• Knowledge management and data processing: You support the development of an AI-driven knowledge management system by expanding and maintaining a data pipeline
• Evaluation: By building and extending an automated evaluation framework and selecting appropriate metrics, you ensure the effectiveness of our AI solutions
• Research and development: You investigate new approaches in AI engineering and assess their applicability for GreenPocket
• Collaboration: Together with our cross-functional teams you help integrate AI solutions into our products and processes
• Continuous learning: Develop your professional profile by gaining knowledge and experience in software development, data science, and AI engineering

Requirements

• You must be able to complete a 6-month mandatory internship as part of your studies in engineering, computer science, or a comparable field
• You have solid Python skills and experience in NLP, both with traditional methods and with LLMs and (dense) embeddings
• You have initial experience in AI engineering, e.g., context engineering, RAG (vector- or knowledge-graph-based), agentic AI, and AI evaluation methods
• You want to learn from our AI expert and actively support them in developing our AI chatbots
• Ideally, you are familiar with relational, vector, or graph databases and have first experience in post-training Transformer-based models
• With your analytical and structured working style you break down complex problems and find appropriate solutions, which you can document clearly and illustratively
• You have very good German and English language skills.

Benefits

• A fantastic AI expert and Product Owner who are always on hand to advise and support you
• Intensive onboarding by our professionals from project management, product management, and development
• Startup atmosphere with the opportunity to help shape the green startup scene
• Continuous learning and expansion of your personal and professional skills
• Flexible working hours and, of course, the possibility to work from home
• Regular team events and table football breaks in a motivated and warm team
• Unlimited coffee and water supplies and regular fresh fruit
• Culturally and sports-friendly location with excellent transport connections — your ideal starting point for professional success and personal development