AI Intern - Fall Start

UPSIDE Foods•Emeryville, CA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

At UPSIDE Foods, we’re turning the promise of cultivated meat into a delicious, nutritious reality, and we’re using AI to do it, from faster R&D to scaled manufacturing and commercial. As an AI Intern within the Enterprise Intelligence team, you’ll join a tight‑knit group of data scientists and IT & software developers who partner with our sci/tech teams to use advanced computing to make meat. Your work will advance our AI portfolio and become central to the worldwide scale of cultivated meat, contributing to a sustainable global food system. This AI Internship is a chance to deliver full life-cycle AI deployments, from stakeholder design to shipping new services. You’ll start with data exploration and white‑boarding use‑cases with stakeholders. You might mine time-series data for hidden predictors, or engineer robust pipelines in Python and SQL, or develop AI agentic workflows to accelerate efficiencies. Expect to juggle API integrations, AWS micro‑services, and data‑engineering touchpoints as you weave LLM‑powered chat, search, and automation features directly into existing UPSIDE infrastructure. You’ll partner with biologists to ensure your features honor metabolic reality, iterate with manufacturing engineers to translate raw sensor streams in algorithms and push models across scales, and ship crisp visualizations that make complex kinetics intuitive for non‑experts. You’ll own meaningful projects from conception to continuous deployment and feedback loops that drive long term business value. This sixteen week internship will give you a front‑row seat to how AI integrates with mammalian and avian cell biology, and by the end, you’ll have deployed three or more applications that drive meaningful value and enable the future of food.

Requirements

Strong ownership instincts. You’re able to drive projects forward and navigate messy cross-functional objectives.
Proficiency in Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI. You know how to validate models, analyze data, and assess AI tool performance.
Strong familiarity with modern AI-driven software dev: Python, SQL, git, Docker, DevOps principles, and frontier AI coding, e.g. Claude Code.
Start up mentality. You’re able to gather stakeholder requirements and quickly translate them into MVPs and recur feedback-improvement loops.
Familiarity with bioprocessing and cell biology concepts.
Must be able to be on-site 3-days a week at our facility near Berkeley, CA, for full time internships.

Nice To Haves

Preference for experience in production environments. You can interface APIs–both your own and otherwise, build in AWS (or equivalent), and can troubleshoot when something goes wrong.
Preference for recent graduates or those doing a Master’s program in AI, computer science, or data science.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to envision and design AI-first workflows and AI agents that are teammates for UPSIDErs.
Explore our R&D and MFG data landscape in search of predictive data and insights, and develop custom data pipelines where needed.
Design and implement AI/ML workflows from data preprocessing to prediction, applicable across bioreactor scales and species.
Integrate AI solutions within organizational tools (e.g., Slack, Jupyter) and data sources, and leverage dashboards or lower-tech solutions when appropriate.
Work closely with IT and Data teammates to ensure infrastructure support.