Campus Undergraduate Summer Internship Program - 2027 AI Engineer, Enterprise Technology Services- Phoenix, AZ
American Express3 days ago
Phoenix, AZ, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Support the development and integration of AI/ML models, LLM integrations, and intelligent services into controlled or production-like systems.
- Assist with data collection, preprocessing, transformation, validation, and management for model training and evaluation.
- Contribute to testing, debugging, prompt and model evaluation, and improvements to AI solution performance, reliability, explainability, and maintainability.
- Support inference endpoints, retrieval pipelines, AI agents, agentic workflows, and AI-enabled software features.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, data, risk, security, and business partners to implement AI-driven solutions.
- Document model parameters, prompts, evaluation assumptions, data pipelines, integrations, and technical decisions.
- Participate in Agile team activities including planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, code reviews, and other team ceremonies.
- Help ensure AI systems meet reliability, safety, governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI expectations.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a full-time bachelor’s degree program and expected to graduate between December 2027 and June 2028.
- Knowledge of Python and foundational data processing technologies.
- Foundational understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, debugging, testing, and problem-solving.
- Understanding of machine learning concepts including model training, evaluation, feature engineering, and experimentation.
- Experience with modern AI systems such as LLM APIs, prompt-based interactions, retrieval patterns, or generative AI applications.
- Awareness of responsible AI, security, governance, compliance, and reliability considerations.
- Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, and learning agility.
- Preferred experience with Python, R, Java, JavaScript, AI-powered applications, copilots, intelligent assistants, agentic workflows, research prototypes, or hackathon projects.
- Preferred familiarity with NLP, fuzzy matching, embeddings, BERT, transformers, prompt engineering, prompt evaluation, tool use, function calling, APIs, data pipelines, ETL, cloud environments, and containerized development.
- Preferred exposure to machine learning algorithms, SQL, testing, version control, code reviews, CI/CD, and collaborative software engineering workflows.
Benefits
- 10-week summer internship program based in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Flexible work arrangements and schedules, including hybrid and virtual options through Amex Flex.
- Manager and mentor support, technical learning, career development, training, leadership exposure, and peer community.
- Access to on-site wellness centers where available and confidential counseling through the Healthy Minds program.
- Competitive base salaries are mentioned, but no explicit amount is provided.
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About American Express
American Express builds a global payments network and issues consumer, small-business, and corporate cards, plus merchant acquiring and travel services. Revenue comes from card fees, interest and lending, discount/merchant fees, and network services. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York City, it operates the Amex acceptance network worldwide and offers co-branded cards and membership rewards across millions of cardmembers and merchants; ticker NYSE: AXP.