AI Engineer Intern
Core
Building grounded AI agents for Shopify brands to provide accurate answers on products, orders, policies, and shipping.
Role type
AI Engineer Intern (LLM + RAG)
Builds
RAG pipelines, product recommendation agents, order/shipping agents, omnichannel agents
Domain
E-commerce, AI, LLMs, RAG
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLMs, RAG, Python, Node.js, reasoning, debugging, APIs, JSON structured outputs
Preferred skills
experience building LLM/RAG projects
Technologies
Python, Node.js
Responsibilities
Build RAG pipelines, reduce hallucinations, improve relevance, create evaluation datasets, add guardrails, work with backend and product teams
Seniority
Intern
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## About the role
HelioAI (helioai.tech) is building a safe + controllable AI concierge for Shopify brands.
Not random "text generation" we build grounded agents that give correct answers about products, orders, policies, shipping, refunds, etc.
We're hiring an AI Engineer (LLM + RAG) who enjoys solving real reliability problems in production AI.
College freshers with a fresh mind are welcome too. If you've built any LLM/RAG project and can learn fast.
## What you'll do
- Build RAG pipelines (retrieval → grounded answers → citations)
- Reduce hallucinations using structured outputs + tool calling
- Improve relevance (chunking, embeddings, reranking, filters)
- Create evaluation datasets + quality scoring (good/bad answers)
- Add guardrails (policy-safe, brand-safe, deterministic for orders)
- Work with backend + product to ship weekly improvements
## What you'll work on (examples)
- Product recommendation agent (upsell + bundles + AOV lift)
- Order + shipping agent (accurate, deterministic answers)
- Knowledge updates (FAQs, policies, announcements)
- Omnichannel agents (Web + WhatsApp + Instagram DM)
## Skills we're looking for
- Strong basics in LLMs + RAG concepts
- Python or Node.js (either is fine)
- Reasoning + debugging mindset
- Comfortable with APIs + JSON structured outputs
## Send
Resume + GitHub + 2 projects you've built to https://www.linkedin.com/in/prkskrs/
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