Open to full-time roles · September 2026

Idir Meradji

AI / ML Engineer

I build AI systems from the ground up mixing knowledge graphs, neural architectures, computer vision and get them out of the notebook.

Final-year M2 Data Science & AI @ Université Paris-Saclay · AI Engineer Intern @ Dassault Systèmes.

Idir Meradji

about

I'd rather build it than import it.

I'm a Software engineer with a big focus more AI/ML, who learns a thing by building it from the bottom. That's meant writing a Transformer tensor by tensor, hand-modelling an OWL ontology, wiring classical image processing into a CNN, and turning a research prototype into a deployed service. Different domains, same instinct: understand the problem, then make it survive contact with real data.

Most recently that's been retrieval and knowledge graphs at Dassault Systèmes and BNP Paribas — but the through-line across everything I've shipped is engineering, not a single framework. I care as much about clean pipelines and reliable evaluation as about the last point of accuracy.

Currently: Searching work · exploring Teyvat · Doja Cat on repeat !

experience

Where I've shipped

AI / Software Engineer Intern

Dassault Systèmes Mar – Aug 2026

Built an end-to-end GraphRAG assistant over a skills ontology (ESCO/SKOS): natural-language to SPARQL, an ontology embedding pipeline in Java with an in-memory vector store, and a conversational panel inside the 3DEXPERIENCE Ontology Explorer.

AI Engineer Intern

BNP Paribas Mar – Jun 2025

Built a multi-agent RAG assistant for internal knowledge access — semantic search over 20K+ documents with BGE multilingual embeddings, FAISS indexing, and a GPT model for answer generation.

Data Analyst & NLP Intern

ThynkTech Nov 2024 – Jan 2025

Built a document-clustering pipeline (TF-IDF + K-Means, scikit-learn, spaCy) over 500+ documents, surfacing recurring topics and the most-referenced resources.

Machine Learning Intern

SAA — Société Nationale d'Assurance Mar – Jun 2024

Developed a Variational Recurrent Autoencoder in TensorFlow to detect anomalies in clients' historical records, reaching 94% accuracy and cutting manual data-cleaning effort.

skills

Toolbox

Programming

PythonJavaSQLSPARQLC / C++TypeScript

Machine Learning & AI

PyTorchTensorFlowNLPGenerative AICNNsVAEsTransfer Learning

LLM & MLOps

LangChainLlamaIndexvLLMOllamaMLflowWeights & BiasesFAISS

Knowledge Representation

RDFOWLSKOSSHACLOntology EngineeringProtégé

Data Science & Optimization

Feature EngineeringStatistical LearningBayesian OptimizationGaussian ProcessesConvex Optimization

Software & Data Engineering

REST APIsFastAPIApache SparkHadoopGitStreamlit

projects

Five domains, one way of working

Knowledge graphs, neural architectures, computer vision, applied risk modelling, representation learning — each one built rather than assembled from a tutorial.

Deep Learning · NLP · 2025

Transformer from Scratch

A full Transformer built in PyTorch with no high-level libraries — multi-head self-attention, positional encoding, and autoregressive text generation, implemented to understand every tensor rather than to call one.

PyTorchAttentionNLP
Computer Vision · Medical Imaging · 2023

Brain Tumor Detection

A hybrid computer-vision pipeline on MRI scans: classical preprocessing and segmentation feeding a CNN for detection and localization. Two approaches that are usually pitched against each other, working together.

PyTorchOpenCVCNNMedical Imaging
Applied ML · Risk & Fraud · 2024 1st prize · national

Credit Assessment Workflow

Built at Hack4Future with Société Générale and won first place nationally: an AI-assisted credit workflow chaining document analysis, cross-document consistency checking, and ML fraud detection into a single risk decision.

Pythonscikit-learnDocument AIAnomaly Detection
Representation Learning · 2026

Neural Feature Learning Study

A study on multi-model feature fusion: combining deep feature extraction with representation learning to push classification performance past what any single backbone reached on its own.

PyTorchFeature FusionBenchmarking

Also worth a look

recommender systems · 2026

Food Planning App

A deployed meal-planning application built on recommendation algorithms and REST APIs, designed around how people actually eat.

2nd place · 2023

IEEE Hackathon

An intelligent student assistant bringing personalized recommendations, resource aggregation, and productivity tools into one app.

thesis · 2025

Hybrid Intelligent Assistant

Engineering thesis: a multi-agent architecture for contextual reasoning and information retrieval, graded with high honors.

contact

Let's talk

Looking for a full-time AI/ML engineering role from September 2026. If your team works on retrieval, knowledge graphs, or getting models into production, I'd like to hear about it.