At the GIZ Data Service Center, our mission is to empower organizations by turning complex information into actionable insights. We provide end-to-end support, from data collection and storage to analysis and visualization, ensuring your knowledge drives informed decisions and impactful outcomes. Our AI workstream helps to transfer knowledge through responsible and scalable AI solutions. We build a standardized portfolio of AI services designed to make the technology accessible and useful to GIZ projects and partners.

Our work spans three core areas:

We support teams from idea to implementation — assessing the feasibility of AI-based approaches, supporting tender processes, and translating domain needs into clear technical requirements.

We build practical AI prototypes and applications, such as generative knowledge assistants, GIZ project portfolio analyses, and automated document processing pipelines.

We develop and maintain scalable AI infrastructure in GIZ’s secure internal Azure environment and the Hugging Face ecosystem, enabling transparent, privacy-conscious deployments.

We are committed to open science and inclusive technology. That means publishing our work openly, building on open-source models and datasets, and ensuring our tools are accessible and relevant.

As an Intern Data Science / AI, you will contribute to the implementation and scaling of AI solutions across diverse international cooperation contexts. Your responsibilities may include:

• Support the development of AI solutions, such as chatbots, knowledge assistants, document analysis tools, or portfolio intelligence dashboards
• Work with text data for tasks such as retrieval, summarization, classification, or question answering using transformer-based models
• Perform data exploration and transformation, code reviews and write production ready code
• Advise on the usage of generative AI and prompt engineering
• Support feasibility, compliance and sustainability assessments, and tender processes for AI-related project requests
• Assists in writing blog posts, learning materials, or internal knowledge pieces to make our AI work transparent and accessible
• Engage with the AI for development community, support events, and help position GIZ’s work in open-source and public-good ecosystems

• A background in a relevant field such as data science, computer science or international development
• A strong interest in applying open-source AI for global challenges
• Experiences in building generative AI and chatbots applications
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows, including branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews
• Familiarity with the Hugging Face ecosystem, including experience with its transformer library, datasets, and model hub, is a plus
• Ideally, previous work involving Streamlit, Gradio or similar ML & Chatbot UI frameworks for building interactive and user-friendly web applications
• Fluency in English is required, German preferable; knowledge of a third language is an asset

GIZ is a signatory of the Diversity Charter. Recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the company are important to us. All employees shall be valued - regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, social background, age or sexual orientation.

Please be informed that you are only allowed to apply for this internship, if you are currently enrolled as a student or graduated not longer than six months ago from the start of your internship.

We pay a monthly stipend of €2.205,01 (gross).

We support equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

For further information, please contact Mr Lehmann (erik.lehmann@giz.de)