Five Tangible Deliverables for a 6-Month Youth Internship
A lack of skills and staff is holding many back. Here are a few current & emerging AI roles:
🔹 Chief AI Officer: Leads AI strategy and oversight.
🔹 Head of AI: Directs AI initiatives and teams.
🔹 AI Architect: Designs scalable AI system architecture.
🔹 AI Product Manager: Manages the AI product development lifecycle.
🔹 AI Risk & Governance Specialist: Ensures AI compliance and risk management.
🔹 AI Ethicist: Addresses ethical implications of AI.
🔹 Model Manager: Oversees the AI model lifecycle.
🔹 Model Validator: Verifies AI model accuracy and reliability.
🔹 AI Developer: Builds and implements Gen AI & Agentic systems.
🔹 Model/ML Engineer: Develops and deploys machine learning models.
🔹 AI Application Developer: Integrates AI into business applications.
🔹 AI App Dev Platform Architect: Designs AI development platform infrastructure.
🔹 AI Cybersecurity Analyst: Mitigates AI-specific cybersecurity risks.
🔹 AI Cybersecurity Researcher: Researches AI system vulnerabilities.
🔹 AI Redteam Engineer: Tests AI systems for weaknesses.
🔹 Prompt Engineer: Optimizes prompts for AI models.
🔹 Knowledge Engineer: Translate expertise into a knowledge-based system
🔹 Decision Engineer: Designs AI-driven decision systems.
🔹 AI Process Automation Engineer: Automates processes using AI.
🔹 Data Scientist: Analyzes data for AI insights.
🔹 Data Engineer: Manages data pipelines for AI.
🔹 Analytics Engineer: Builds AI-driven analytics solutions.
🔹 D&A and AI UX Designer: Designs user experiences for AI apps.
1️⃣ Personalized Professional Profile
Every intern will leave with a polished, recruiter-ready LinkedIn profile, featuring:
- Verified skills in AI fundamentals & emergent research
- A clear project summary describing hands-on work at Yarian
- Public endorsements from a Yarian mentor (where appropriate)
Purpose: Interns show real, verifiable experience to colleges, future employers, or collaborators.
2️⃣ Certified Skill Development
Each intern completes a structured online certificate or micro-credential related to their track — for example:
- A Coursera, edX, or Google AI certificate
- A short OpenAI or data science bootcamp module
Purpose: They gain an industry-recognized skill badge, not just informal practice.
3️⃣ Hands-On Research & Documentation
Interns spend ~6 months actively contributing to real Yarian experiments, resulting in:
- A personal lab notebook detailing experiments they touched
- Co-authorship or mention in published logs or micro-papers
- A clear log of hours worked
Purpose: They can prove real research experience with time-stamped contributions.
4️⃣ Leadership & Collaboration Training
For interns who show initiative, Yarian offers:
- Peer leadership roles (team lead for a mini-project)
- Short workshops in clear communication, giving peer feedback, and presenting results
Purpose: This positions them to say they have team experience — gold on early resumes.
5️⃣ Creative Ownership & Public Attribution
Every intern’s contributions are:
- Properly attributed in project credits or public documentation
- Licensed so they can re-use, remix, or spin off new ideas for personal portfolios or future ventures
- Covered by a simple, clear Creative Commons-like understanding: YARIAN.COM gets credit for the framework; the intern owns their unique spin-off work.
Purpose: Protects interns’ creative agency and encourages innovation, while giving Yarian recognition for seeding the ideas.
🧩 Bonus: The “Ethical IP Clause”
“Interns are free to develop new ideas inspired by their YARIAN.COM work. We only ask for fair credit — no strings attached.”
🎓 What Interns Gain:
| Deliverable | Benefit |
|---|---|
| 1. Verified LinkedIn Profile | Demonstrates real experience |
| 2. Recognized Certificate | Validates a core AI skill |
| 3. Documented Research Hours | Shows hands-on contribution |
| 4. Leadership Workshop | Builds confidence & soft skills |
| 5. Credited Project Work | Ownership + future portfolio |
Plus:
Freedom to build new ideas, and keep them.
When You’re Big and Brilliant — Remember Us
Someday, you’ll outgrow this lab. You’ll move on to build your own algorithms, your own companies, or maybe whole new kinds of minds.
When that happens — when you’re famous, funded, or just quietly content — we ask for only one thing:
Remember Yarian.
Remember that a few curious misfits gave you a safe place to fail, to tinker, and to turn weird ideas into beautiful, working ones.
Stay generous. Stay kind. Pass it on. And if your breakthroughs trace back to a spark you found here, just say so — so the next generation knows it’s okay to dream before you’re “qualified.”
You were one of us once. You always will be.
🧬 — Yarian Inc.