Campus Undergraduate Summer Internship Program - 2027 AI Engineer, Enterprise Technology Services- Toronto, Ontario, CN
American Express3 days ago
Toronto, CanadaIntern
Responsibilities
- Research emerging artificial intelligence and cybersecurity technologies, threats, techniques, and security capabilities.
- Build prototypes, proof-of-concepts, security test harnesses, and experimental environments using Python and other programming languages.
- Develop and test AI and agentic AI solutions involving LLM integrations, AI agents, tool calling, orchestration frameworks, retrieval patterns, and automated workflows.
- Experiment with AI models for security analysis, threat detection, vulnerability research, application security testing, and automation.
- Integrate APIs, AI models, security tools, cloud services, containers, data sources, and development environments.
- Create test cases, benchmarks, and experiments to evaluate effectiveness, reliability, security, limitations, and enterprise applicability.
- Evaluate open-source technologies, products, platforms, and emerging technical capabilities through hands-on testing and analysis.
- Analyze experimental results and document findings, assumptions, risks, limitations, and recommendations.
- Prepare technical documentation, research summaries, demonstrations, and presentations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled full-time in a bachelor's degree program in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, computer engineering, software engineering, information systems, or a related technical field.
- Graduation date must be between December 2027 and June 2028.
- Hands-on programming experience, preferably with Python, and exposure to Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Go, C/C++, Bash, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
- Foundational knowledge of computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, and cybersecurity concepts.
- Ability to investigate technical problems, build or test solutions, analyze results, and document findings with guidance.
- Preferred qualifications include academic, research, personal, open-source, security lab, hackathon, or Capture-the-Flag experience.
- Preferred familiarity with prompt engineering, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, tool or function calling, orchestration frameworks, model evaluation, threat modeling, vulnerability research, AI red teaming, and automated security testing.
- Preferred experience with APIs, cloud platforms, containers, data pipelines, development environments, security tools, software integration patterns, benchmarks, and technical evaluations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written and verbal communication, collaboration, curiosity, initiative, and learning agility.
Benefits
- 16-week summer internship program.
- Flexible work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options through Amex Flex.
- Access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors, depending on location.
- Career development, training, and opportunities to learn new skills and grow professionally.
- Inclusive and accessible work environment with disability accommodations available.
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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.