AI Engineer - Intern

About us

Owkin is an agentic AI company pioneering Biological Artificial Superintelligence to solve problems in biology where human researchers alone have failed.
Owkin builds K Pro - an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making. K Pro orchestrates a suite of AI skills and tools to decode complex biology, accelerate research, and dramatically increase productivity.
K Pro is built on Owkin’s unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the-art AI for biology and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners.

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. You'll 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 Owkin’s 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 Owkin’s agentic data pipelines, K ecosystem, and learn to manipulate Owkin’s 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)

• You’re 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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