About the role#
As an AI Engineer Intern, you will join a 10-week Summer 2027 program within the Enterprise Technology Services organization. You will contribute to real-world projects that help teams explore, build, test, and scale AI-enabled solutions. You will work alongside engineers, product managers, and data practitioners to learn how intelligent systems are designed, validated, and monitored in a global enterprise environment.
What you'll do#
- Support the development and integration of AI/ML models, LLM integrations, and intelligent services.
- Assist with data collection, preprocessing, transformation, and management.
- Contribute to testing, debugging, and improving AI-enabled solutions.
- Support AI capabilities including model training workflows, inference endpoints, prompt-based interactions, evaluation routines, data retrieval pipelines, and agentic workflows.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, data, risk, security, and business partners.
- Document model parameters, prompts, evaluation assumptions, data pipelines, system integrations, and technical decisions.
- Participate in Agile development practices, including sprint planning, stand ups, demos, retrospectives, and code reviews.
- Assist in ensuring AI features align with enterprise expectations for reliability, safety, governance, security, and compliance.
- Build foundational confidence working across AI-adjacent areas such as APIs, cloud environments, data platforms, CI/CD, containers, and model deployment.
What you'll need#
- Currently enrolled in a full-time bachelor’s degree program with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and June 2028.
- Knowledge of Python and foundational data processing technologies.
- Foundational understanding of computer science concepts including data structures, algorithms, debugging, testing, and problem solving.
- Understanding of machine learning concepts such as model training, evaluation, feature engineering, and experimentation.
- Experience using modern AI systems like LLM APIs, prompt-based interactions, retrieval patterns, and generative AI applications.
- Awareness of responsible AI, security, governance, compliance, and reliability considerations.
- Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, and learning agility.
Location & details#
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: Remote, on-site, or hybrid options available.
- Employment: Full-time internship.
- Compensation: This is a paid position.
- Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
About American Express
American Express is a globally integrated payments company that provides products, insights, and experiences to customers and businesses. Founded in 1850, the firm maintains its headquarters in New York. It employs over 99,000 people and operates as a public company. Its core operations include network services, merchant services, corporate cards, and business travel.
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