About the group.one Aida AI Academy
The group.one Aida AI Academy, based in Ahmedabad, provides intensive technical and commercial training for local graduates recruited into the company.
Over a six-month paid internship, graduates will combine market, commercial, and AI skills training with hands-on exposure to live company projects, and guidance from experts across the business. This practical, business-integrated approach prepares them for roles in the company, in areas such as product development, support and advanced analytics, where AI and automation skills are increasingly important.
“Graduates work inside real teams on real problems: they find, frame, build and prove AI solutions, with AI as their native way of working.”
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Rati Agarwal, Head of the Aida AI Academy
About the 6-month AI Academy program
You’ll spend six months as an AI Associate at group.one, working on live priorities within several different business teams. You’ll use AI tools to solve practical problems, learn how a company really runs, and present your findings to the people who can act on them. Graduates work inside real teams on real problems: they find, frame, build and prove AI solutions, with AI as their native way of working.
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Month 1: Foundation
Company leaders and subject matter experts provide education on culture, compliance, customers, products, AI bootcamp, communication and branding.
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Months 2-5: Immersion and rotations
Each function introduces itself to the cohort: product, marketing, finance, customer support.
Pairs of graduates rotate through the business areas, working on specific business assignments. -
Month 6: Experts and challenges
Leader masterclasses
An AI challenge for each area
Demo Day and graduation
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Post-program
Job placement in one of the business areas.
Who can apply
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Final-year students who have completed their 7th semester (B.E./B.Tech or equivalent) at an Ahmedabad-area institution, and who will complete their degree by mid-2027.
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Based in, or willing to work from, our Ahmedabad office for the full six months.
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Any engineering or technology discipline. Computer science and IT backgrounds are welcome, but not required.
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Nice to have, but not required: a project, internship or portfolio showing applied AI or data work.
What we look for
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Business curiosity
You want to understand how a company works: how customers are won, how products make money, and how teams make decisions.
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AI understanding
You grasp the fundamentals (what generative AI and automation can and can’t do) and have used AI tools in projects, coursework or on your own.
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Logical and analytical thinking
You can break down an unfamiliar problem, reason through data and structure an approach. This is assessed through an aptitude test.
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Communication and collaboration
You can explain your thinking clearly and work well across teams and cultures, in English.
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Ownership
You learn quickly, take initiative and follow through.
Apply today: AI Associate at AI Academy
Applications are open from November 9 to November xx, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
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Are these paid positions?
group.one Aida AI Academy recruits are salaried employees from day 1.
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Do I have to be in Ahmedabad?
Yes, the group.one Aida AI Academy is based in our modern offices in Ahmedabad, together with up to 100 colleagues from the company. This is also the home base for our Social Pilot product.
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What happens at the end of 6 months?
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What kind of training can I expect?
· Business leaders and experts will provide training on customers, products, branding, compliance, culture and more. The rest of the program is focused on applied learning through immersion in projects in the business, and a challenge activity at the end where graduates demonstrate what they have learned to company leaders in a demo day.
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When does the program start?
January 2027 to July.
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Where is the office located in Ahmedabad?
group.one opened a new office in July, located at 703 Brooklyn Tower, Sarkhej–Gandhinagar Highway, beside YMCA Club, Makarba, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015, India
Meet the Head of the AI Academy
Rati Agarwal is Head of AI Academy at group.one, where she leads the development of early-career AI talent through hands-on learning and real business projects.
She brings 16+ years of experience across academia, corporate learning and talent development, including industry-academia partnerships. She began her career as a professor and has since worked with IBM, TNT, ASSOCHAM and Capgemini, where she was recognized as a Capgemini Brand Ambassador. A published author and researcher, she has championed employability and stronger industry–academia partnerships, and has run workshops for thousands of students and young professionals across India.
Rati holds an M.Tech and B. Tech. in IT.
The AI Academy is important for our business. Hear from our leaders.
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As we become AI-native in our products and increasingly across our operations, we are growing our AI capabilities. The local AI Academy in Ahmedabad will support this by developing early-career talent, deeply connected to our global product and technology organizations.
Daniel Hagemeier
CEO
“AI is developing incredibly fast, so we have designed a program able to keep pace. Graduates in the AI Academy will be deeply integrated with our business, and they will work on real projects early in the program, learning AI skills the way our teams actually apply them, not in a classroom removed from the work."
Daniel Dixon
CIO
“AI is driving a fundamental shift in how our products are built, experienced by customers and how they can harness data to proactively help customers in their specific business context. This demands that our teams work seamlessly together on technical, commercial and customer experience in rapid cycles. By immersing graduates straight into these development projects while training them on the business, the AI Academy will help strengthen our innovation capability.”
Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
Join a friendly and growing team
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Established in India since 2009, group.one opened new offices in Ahmedabad in July 2026. Ahmedabad is the original home to Social Pilot, that joined group.one in 2025.