Join the Mission

We’re building AI for Northeast India’s languages and communities. Whether you’re a researcher, student, developer, linguist, or native speaker; there’s a place for you here.

How You Can Contribute

Whether you need hands-on research experience, want to collaborate on cutting-edge NLP, contribute to open-source, or help preserve your language; we have opportunities across different commitment levels.

Research Internships

Work on active projects in low-resource NLP, model training, and language technology. Ideal for undergraduate/graduate students looking for hands-on AI research experience.

What you’ll do:

Data collection and preprocessing
Model training and evaluation
Research documentation
Contributing to publications

Details:

Duration: 3-6 months
Commitment: Full-time or part-time
Compensation: Stipend available for select funded projects; other positions offer co-authorship and mentorship

Research Collaborations

Partner with us on specific research problems; tokenization, multilingual models, cultural AI, speech recognition. Perfect for PhD students, postdocs, or faculty exploring Northeast Indian languages.

What you’ll do:

Co-develop models and methods
Joint paper authorship
Dataset creation and sharing
Grant proposal collaboration

Details:

Duration: Project-based (3-12 months)
Commitment: Flexible, part-time
Compensation: Partnership-based; access to compute, datasets, co-authorship

Open-Source Contributors

Contribute to our models, datasets, or tools on HuggingFace and GitHub. We welcome engineers, linguists, and developers who want to advance AI for underrepresented languages.

What you’ll do:

Code contributions and bug fixes
Documentation improvements
Dataset contributions
Model testing and evaluation

Details:

Duration: Ongoing, at your pace
Commitment: As much or little as you want
Compensation: Recognition in repos, model cards, and publications

Language Contributors

Help preserve and digitize Northeast Indian languages through data annotation, transcription, translation, and voice recording. Native speakers are essential to building culturally accurate AI.

What you’ll do:

Audio transcription (speech-to-text)
Text annotation and labeling
Translation verification
Voice/audio recording
Cultural validation

Details:

Duration: Project-based or ongoing
Commitment: Flexible hours (5-20 hours/week)
Compensation: Paid hourly/task based for annotation projects

What We Offer

For Interns & Researchers

Work on published, open-source AI research
Co-authorship opportunities on papers
Mentorship from experienced ML engineers
Flexible remote/hybrid work
Stipend available for select funded internships

For Contributors & Collaborators

Recognition in model cards and documentation
Access to compute resources (case-by-case)
Join a community building AI for NE India
Portfolio-building opportunities

For Language Experts

Competitive rates for annotation work
Flexible scheduling
Preserve your language through technology
Remote work opportunities
Training and support provided

Join Us

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Application does not guarantee a position
Compensation varies by role and funding availability
Some opportunities are unpaid but offer co-authorship and experience
My data will be processed per MWire Labs' privacy policy

We review applications on a rolling basis and will reach out within 2-3 weeks if there’s a fit.