AI Computer Vision, Summer Internship

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you become part of a human-centric company that values each individual's story. Ancestry®, as a global leader in family history, enhances lives through empowering personal discovery journeys. We pride ourselves on our expansive collection of over 40 billion records, more than 3 million subscribers, and a growing DNA network comprising over 23 million people. Our customers can delve into their family history and gain a deeper understanding of their lives. Over the past four decades, we have fostered trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as their go-to platform for discovering, preserving, and sharing vital information about themselves and their families. Every day at Ancestry, we strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where our people can be their authentic selves. We value every idea and perspective, which is reflected in our products and services that cater to our global and diverse clientele. Ancestry welcomes applications from minorities, women, the disabled, veterans, and all other eligible candidates. If you are passionate about dedicating your work to enrich people's lives, we invite you to join us. What you will do: Ancestry is seeking an exceptional, fervent, and highly motivated AI Computer Vision Intern to join our Handwriting Recognition (HWR) team this summer. The HWR team handles the majority of the image content used to enrich family trees and generate notifications. As an intern on the HWR team, your role will involve building new vision and NLP pipelines for processing numerous content images, creating, training, and fine-tuning models for record extraction from handwritten images, designing and implementing complex end-to-end model pipelines, working closely with engineering teams on training, optimizing, and deploying models, and collaborating with Data Science Engineers on deploying datasets, truth sets, models, pipelines, training and inference code to the cloud. You will also be responsible for effectively communicating and presenting deliverables and solutions to the team, stakeholders, and executive leadership. Who You Are: Desired candidates should have an advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or any relevant data-driven field, specialize in computer vision, deep learning and machine learning, have strong proficiency in Python, LLMs, CV, NLP, and other libraries, familiarity with deep learning frameworks like Pytorch, Hugging Face, OpenAI, TensorFlow, SpaCy, SciPy stack, etc, have proven experience in applied research and real-world application of published models, and have significant software development experience. Internship Program Details: Eligible candidates are students enrolled in an accredited U.S. educational institution set to graduate after August 2024. The summer 2024 program spans from May 13 to September 6, interns must have graduated in order to qualify. Temporary housing and travel are fully paid for by the company. All internships will be based in Lehi, Utah, with a flexible work arrangement that allows for both office-based and remote work. Interns will have opportunities to network with other interns and industry professionals, participate in engaging events, work a full-time schedule, and be equipped with company-issued laptops and equipment for the internship duration. Additional Information: Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions irrespective of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Please note that all job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Please be aware that Ancestry does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry without a valid written search agreement will be considered the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry following the referral or through other means.