Fall 2026 AI/ML Engineering Intern
The Nuclear Company29 days ago
Washington, DC, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Ship ML and AI features for NOS applications supporting site evaluation, red-flag analysis, scheduling, lessons learned, and stakeholder and project tools.
- Build AI agents and agent workflows that operate against NOS data and tools, including MCP interfaces and tool-use frameworks.
- Develop data pipelines and integrations across Palantir Foundry, AWS GovCloud, and other systems, and contribute to NOS data ontology.
- Build predictive and anomaly-detection models using operational and sensor data, including time-series analysis.
- Own model quality activities including evaluation criteria, acceptance thresholds, regression suites, issue triage, and root-cause analysis.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a BS program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related technical field, with plans to return to school afterward.
- Available for the complete six-month Fall 2026 term from August through December.
- Strong Python fundamentals and hands-on exposure to ML and LLM tooling such as PyTorch or Hugging Face through coursework or projects.
- Demonstrated experience shipping working software or ML projects through coursework, personal projects, internships, or co-ops.
- U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident status is required because the position involves technology subject to U.S. export controls.
- Able and willing to work on-site in Washington, DC, five days per week.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with LLMs, agents, prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, tool use, Palantir Foundry, AIP, AWS, exploratory data analysis, large or time-series datasets, MLOps tooling, or regulated and industrial domains.
Benefits
- Six-month Fall 2026 co-op running August through December and aligned with the academic calendar.
- Washington, DC, on-site five days per week.
- Full housing and relocation support for co-ops outside the DC metro area.
- 401k with company match.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Generous vacation policy and holidays.
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