Description

Are you a graduate student or recent graduate interested in applying your AI skills to real-world projects? The FastLane Machine Learning Associates (MLA) Program – Cohort 9 (Fall 2025) is now open for applications!

This 4-month paid opportunity connects participants with innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Canada to help them build AI-powered solutions using cutting-edge methods in Generative AI and Agentic AI.

Through this program, you’ll gain hands-on experience working on projects such as autonomous AI agents, tool-using LLMs, and memory-enabled reasoning systems — all while being supported by technical mentors and project delivery experts from the Vector Institute.

Our upcoming cohort will focus on Generative AI and Agentic AI.

Key benefits:

Real-World Impact: Apply your AI expertise to address business problems through a proof-of-concept project.

Emerging Tech Focus: Work with advanced methods like multi-step reasoning, function-calling LLMs, and agentic systems.

Career Acceleration: Gain exposure to industry practices, expand your network, and access professional development resources.

Collaborative Learning: Join a select cohort of peers and participate in structured technical and soft-skills training sessions.

To qualify for this opportunity, you must:

You are currently enrolled in or recently graduated (within 1 year) from an AI-related graduate program, or are a researcher working with Vector Faculty.

You are legally eligible to work in Canada and will reside in Canada for the full duration of the program.

You have hands-on experience with machine learning in Python; implementation experience is a strong asset.

You graduated no earlier than August 2024.

Please contact fastlane.projects@vectorinstitute.ai with any questions.