How to find fresher jobs in AIML

[Noor]

What are the best websites or methods to find Fresher, Entry-Level, and Internship opportunities in:

• AI/ML

• Data Annotation/Labeling

• Computer Vision

• Python

Looking for genuine opportunities suitable for 0–1 years of experience. Any recommendations? Less crowded

Location: India

[Jenna]

Where AI/ML Freshers Actually Get Noticed — one method that works from any country, every lead checked at the source

Every “top 10 job sites” list points everyone at the same 50 postings. This checked each lead directly on the company’s own page instead of trusting a blog that repeats one — two turned out smaller than first reported. Here’s what’s real, fine print included.

Works from anywhere

1. Contribute to a real open-source AI project. Roboflow’s trackers project — a maintainer directly asked for help labeling benchmark videos. Read the contributing guide, do one small task, get a real maintainer relationship at a company that hires computer-vision people. No location restriction, no payment — and a genuine foot in the door.

2. Mercor’s Research Fellowship (APEX) — mercor.com/careers — remote, paid a one-time $40,000–$80,000 depending on level, no country restriction listed. The catch: Mercor doesn’t sponsor a visa, so this works only when someone is already legally allowed to work as an independent contractor where they live.

The method — run this yourself, from anywhere

Search for job postings hosted on jobs.ashbyhq.com, jobs.lever.co, or job-boards.greenhouse.io, combined with “intern” or “entry level” plus “machine learning” or “computer vision” or “data annotation”. These are the systems companies actually post through — one search this way found 3 real, live internships in Germany and Singapore that no generic job-site list carries.

Real leads, tied to one city — check the location first

• Sama’s AI 101 training — sama.com/ai101 — free 10-day training toward a Data Annotator role. Only near a physical Sama site: Nairobi, Gulu, Kampala, San Francisco, Montreal, San Jose (Costa Rica), or The Hague. Finishing the training does not guarantee a paid role — Sama’s own page says hiring depends on business need.
• Thingtrax’s Vision AI Launchpad — Workable listing — 6-month paid program, PKR 50,000/month, Python and computer-vision work. On-site in Lahore, Pakistan only.
• TUM’s Computer Vision Group — PDF listing — 2 paid student-assistant roles on egocentric AI research. Open only to students already enrolled at TU München.
• Sereact and Goventi, found using the search method above — Python/ML internships in Germany and Singapore.

No city-specific one fits everyone. Start with the open-source contribution and run the search method today — both work from anywhere.

[Hannah]

Eleven doors into AI/ML work that stay open next year — not eleven job ads that die next week

Job ads expire. These are the places the ads come from — each one keeps refilling on its own. Every link was opened today.

   PAID TODAY        1 · 2            pass a short test, start this week
   BUILD THE RÉSUMÉ  3 · 4 · 5 · 9    free, global, credited work
   ROLES THAT REFILL 6 · 7 · 11       lists that update themselves
   ON A CALENDAR     8 · 10           know the month, set a reminder

1. DataAnnotation.tech — paid micro-tasks rating AI answers, hourly rate, weekly payout, any country.
Take the 10-minute reasoning test, start the same day. Cousins with the same shape: Mindrift, Avala, CrowdGen, Outlier, Welo, OpenTrain.

2. TELUS International AI Community — the vendor that labels data for the big labs, rolling recruitment, global.
Register, pass the qualification for one open project, get paid per task.

3. Talmo Lab, Salk Institute — a research lab whose page says “no prior ML research experience — show us your code,” open to anyone, not only its own students.
Email the professor with a GitHub link. This is the shape to search for on any lab site: “join the lab” + “undergraduate” + “no experience required”.

4. Hugging Face — Data is Better Together — live community datasets that need annotators; every contribution is credited under your name.
Join the org, pick an active project, label. Résumé line, not pay.

5. Kaggle Learn — free Intro to ML and Deep Learning courses, a certificate per course, notebooks stay public as a portfolio.
Finish Intro to Machine Learning in an afternoon, keep the notebook public.

6. Hacker News “Who is hiring” — a new thread every month, hundreds of companies, many remote.
Open the current month, search the page for “remote” and “ML”, reply to the ones that fit.

7. SimplifyJobs New-Grad-Positions — a GitHub table of entry-level roles that students update daily.
Star it, filter for AI / ML / Data, apply through each row’s link.

8. Merck Datathon — a yearly data competition with an India track where the sponsor interviews top finishers.
Watch the “Key competition dates” box; the 15-minute application opens with each cohort.

9. Google AI Essentials — Google’s own beginner certificate, five hours, free on this page. The same course costs $49 a month on Coursera — use this link.
Sign in with a Google account, finish the five modules, download the certificate.

10. AWS AI & ML Scholars — 100,000 free seats a year, 18+, no experience; the 2026 batch is full, the next opens around March.
Set a March reminder. Today: the free AWS Skill Builder courses linked on the same page.

11. zapply awesome-ml-internships — a GitHub list that scrapes company hiring pages for ML internships automatically.
Watch the repo; it does the “search every company’s careers page” trick for you.

India-specific bonus: NIELIT Virtual Academy runs a free self-paced Agentic AI course with open registration, and the government’s Fundamentals of Data Annotation using Python certificate runs in batches at 27 NIELIT centres — check your nearest centre’s page for the next batch date.

Tonight: the 10-minute test at door 1, join door 4, star doors 7 and 11. Four doors open before bed.