About the role#
Conduent is hiring an Applied AI Engineer Intern to support AI-enabled initiatives within Government Healthcare Solutions. This role focuses on organizing enterprise knowledge and improving information retrieval to help teams use existing data more effectively. This is a remote, part-time internship requiring 20 hours per week during the fall term.
What you'll do#
- Build preprocessing and LLM-assisted extraction workflows to transform unstructured data into structured representations.
- Establish an embeddings and vector-index retrieval baseline as an experiment.
- Explore knowledge graphs and knowledge maps to compare their performance against vector baselines.
- Define and track retrieval and knowledge-quality measures, including relevance, precision, and groundedness.
- Document architecture decisions, experimental results, limitations, and recommended next steps.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in a graduate program for Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience with natural language processing, information extraction, and vector search.
- Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation as an experimental method.
- Strong written communication skills to explain technical work to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfort working with unstructured text and conducting quantitative evaluations.
Location & details#
- This position is fully remote.
- The internship is for the Fall 2026 term.
- Candidates are expected to work 20 hours per week.
About Conduent
Conduent provides digital business solutions for the government, transportation, and commercial sectors. Founded in 2017, the firm operates out of its headquarters in Florham Park, New Jersey. It employs over 10,000 people globally to manage large-scale operations like government payments and tolling transactions. The company uses automation, cloud computing, and analytics to support client operations.
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