Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Oklahoma City Thunder is an elite performance organization and leading NBA franchise seeking an Applied AI Engineer Intern in Basketball Operations. The intern will develop and deploy integrated artificial intelligence applications using internal and external data sources to support strategic planning, player evaluation, basketball analytics, and player performance decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Develop, deploy, and integrate artificial intelligence models into the systems that drive real-time decisions within basketball operations in collaboration with a team of software engineers and data scientists
Skills
- Working toward an undergraduate, graduate or doctoral degree in computer science or related field
- Advanced proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
- Advanced SQL skills and experience querying large analytical warehouses (e.g., AWS Redshift, AWS Athena)
- Experience building RAG pipelines and fine-tuning foundation models for specific business tasks
- Experience working with and protecting confidential information
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to deliver clear and effective messages to a variety of partners
- Experience working with large, spatiotemporal datasets in an AI / ML context a plus
- Experience with cloud-ML tooling such as AWS SageMaker and Bedrock a plus
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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