Campus Undergraduate Summer Internship Program - 2027 Cybersecurity AI Engineer, Enterprise Technology Services- Phoenix, AZ
American Express2 days ago
Phoenix, AZ, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Support development and integration of AI/ML models, LLM integrations, and intelligent services into controlled or production-like systems.
- Assist with data collection, preprocessing, transformation, management, model training, testing, validation, and evaluation.
- Contribute to testing, debugging, and improvement of AI-enabled solutions for performance, reliability, explainability, and maintainability.
- Support model training workflows, inference endpoints, prompt-based interactions, evaluation routines, retrieval pipelines, AI agents, and agentic workflows.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, data, risk, security, and business partners to implement AI-driven solutions.
- Document model parameters, prompts, evaluation assumptions, data pipelines, system integrations, and technical decisions.
- Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, code reviews, and other team ceremonies.
- Help ensure AI systems and AI-enabled features meet reliability, safety, governance, security, and compliance expectations.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a full-time bachelor’s degree program with expected graduation between December 2027 and June 2028.
- Knowledge of Python and foundational data processing technologies.
- Foundational understanding of data structures, algorithms, debugging, testing, and problem solving.
- Understanding of machine learning concepts including model training, evaluation, feature engineering, and experimentation.
- Experience using 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 through coursework, research, projects, open-source contributions, internships, or extracurricular activities using Python, R, Java, JavaScript, or similar technologies.
- Preferred familiarity with NLP, fuzzy matching, embeddings, BERT, transformers, prompt engineering, prompt evaluation, tools, function calling, agent workflows, ML algorithms, APIs, data pipelines, ETL, cloud environments, containerized development, version control, testing, and code reviews.
- Beneficial cybersecurity knowledge includes secure software development, application security, identity and access management, data protection, encryption, secure API design, threat modeling, AI security risks, governance controls, and compliance.
Benefits
- 10-week summer internship program.
- Hands-on engineering experience with manager and mentor support, technical learning, leadership exposure, peer community, and career development opportunities.
- Flexible work arrangements and schedules, including hybrid and virtual options through Amex Flex.
- Access to global on-site wellness centers, depending on location.
- Confidential counseling support through the Healthy Minds program.
- Competitive base salaries are offered, with the specific amount not stated.
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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.