AI Internship: Self-Hosted LLMs for Data Migration
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America4 days ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandIntern
Responsibilities
- Benchmark self-hosted open-source LLMs against cloud models for schema understanding, business-rule extraction, and data-quality assessment.
- Deploy and run candidate models locally using tools such as Ollama, vLLM, and Hugging Face.
- Design and build a prototype agentic pipeline for analyzing legacy schemas, code, and sample data.
- Investigate hidden business rules in legacy systems, including .NET-based applications.
- Validate data consistency and quality and assess the complexity of a representative legacy migration.
- Generate automated effort and complexity estimates and step-by-step migration guidelines.
- Define accuracy criteria and best practices for using local models in fixed-price migration scoping.
- Evaluate and document resource, cost, and licensing trade-offs between self-hosted and cloud models.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Comfort programming in Python and SQL.
- Familiarity with LLMs and ideally experience deploying them locally with tools such as Ollama, vLLM, or Hugging Face.
- Curiosity about agentic AI and interest in building and benchmarking an AI pipeline.
- Basic understanding of database schemas and data quality.
- Ability to work in a structured way and communicate findings clearly.
- Fluency in written and spoken English plus German or French.
- Academic transcripts must be attached to the application.
Benefits
- Six-month internship starting in Spring 2027.
- Collaborative, multicultural workplace with international sites.
- Monthly AI meetups with the expert AI team.
- Opportunity to build innovative solutions and make a practical impact.
- Internal hackathons, Brownbag technical sessions, and a technical blog.
- Monthly after-work events organized at each location.
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About Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a U.S. Christian denomination that coordinates churchwide programs, theological resources, and ministries for congregations, synods, and partners. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Chicago, it serves about 3.3 million members in more than 9,000 worshiping communities across all 50 states and the Caribbean, funded primarily by congregational benevolence, donations, and endowments, and operating initiatives in leadership development, education, disaster response, and global mission.