Spring 2027 AI/ML Engineering Intern
The Nuclear Company29 days ago
Washington, DC, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Ship ML and AI features inside NOS applications supporting site evaluation, red flag analysis, scheduling, lessons learned, stakeholder tools, 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 the NOS data ontology.
- Build predictive and anomaly-detection models, including time-series analysis of sensor and operational data.
- 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; available for the full six-month term and returning to school afterward.
- Strong Python fundamentals and hands-on exposure to ML and LLM tooling such as PyTorch or Hugging Face through coursework or projects.
- Experience shipping working software or ML projects through coursework, personal projects, internships, or co-ops.
- U.S. Person status, defined as U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, is required due to export controls.
- Willingness and ability to work on-site in Washington, DC, five days per week for the full six-month term.
- Preferred experience includes LLMs and agents, prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, tool use, Palantir Foundry and AIP, AWS or another cloud platform, exploratory data analysis, large or messy datasets, time-series or sensor data, MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or model CI/CD.
- Interest in energy, national security, industrial software, or regulated industries is preferred; nuclear engineering familiarity is optional.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, 401k with company match, medical, dental, and vision plans, generous vacation policy, and holidays.
- Six-month Spring 2027 co-op running January through June.
- Washington, DC base location with on-site work five days per week.
- Full housing and relocation support for co-ops outside the DC metro area.
- Base pay is $25.00 per hour plus a $2,000 monthly housing stipend.
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