Software Engineer Internship – AI Platform Team
Wellmark, Inc.3 days ago
Des Moines, IA, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with interns, engineers, product partners, and subject matter experts to define problems, divide work, integrate components, and demonstrate working solutions.
- Build or enhance data ingestion and transformation pipelines for analytics, applications, and AI use cases.
- Develop APIs, microservices, serverless components, and event-driven workflows connecting data and AI capabilities.
- Support governed, secure, observable, reliable, and scalable AI platform capabilities involving generative AI, large language models, agents, and related services.
- Build reusable enterprise AI services, domain assistants, agents, agent skills, prompts, tools, knowledge integrations, and workflows.
- Apply data quality, governance, lineage, security, privacy, and access-control practices throughout the solution lifecycle.
- Create automated tests, monitor solution health, troubleshoot issues, and improve reliability and performance.
- Use infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices for repeatable cloud deployments.
- Create technical documentation, code samples, architecture diagrams, and best-practice guidance.
- Present project outcomes, lessons learned, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Be a current junior, senior, or master's student pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- Have foundational knowledge of software development, data concepts, or cloud computing and an interest in AI, data engineering, platform engineering, or related disciplines.
- Have experience through coursework, projects, internships, research, or personal learning with at least one programming or query language such as Python, SQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, .NET/C#, or C++.
- Have a basic understanding of databases, data structures, APIs, data pipelines, cloud services, or machine learning concepts.
- Demonstrate analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, communication, collaboration, prioritization, adaptability, and attention to detail.
- Be proficient with Microsoft Office products and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams.
- Preferred qualifications include prior internship, co-op, campus leadership, research, or professional experience.
- Preferred experience includes data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, APIs, microservices, cloud applications, analytics solutions, AI-enabled applications, AWS, serverless or event-driven architecture, S3-based data lakes, or distributed data processing.
- Preferred technologies and concepts include Python, PySpark, SQL, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Glue, CDK, Iceberg, Parquet, automated testing, Git, CI/CD, generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, RAG, model evaluation, AI governance, observability, data governance, and data quality.
Benefits
- May 2027 summer internship with opportunities to apply academic learning in the health insurance industry.
- Hybrid work schedule from Wellmark's headquarters in Des Moines.
- Meaningful project work, professional development, mentorship from subject matter experts and leaders, and networking with interns and technology professionals.
- Opportunities to contribute across AI Platform, Enterprise AI Services, and Data Engineering.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsData Engineering
About Wellmark, Inc.
Wellmark, Inc. sells health insurance plans and health management programs to individuals, families, and employer groups in Iowa and South Dakota. An independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, it serves over 2 million members with access to a national provider network. Founded in 1939 and headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, Wellmark is privately held.