4 days ago
Durham, NC, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Develop AI agents using agentic frameworks to automate complex, multi-step enterprise workflows.
- Implement tool-calling architectures, function-calling interfaces, and MCP integrations with enterprise APIs, databases, and external services.
- Support RAG pipelines using vector databases to ground agent responses in enterprise data.
- Participate in AI red teaming, including prompt-injection, jailbreak-resistance, tool-abuse, and multi-turn manipulation testing.
- Build and test runtime guardrails, validators, content filters, and human-in-the-loop approval gates.
- Benchmark and evaluate foundation models on accuracy, latency, cost, safety, and failure modes.
- Contribute to agent observability and tracing, including structured logging, attribution, audit trails, and cost tracking.
- Prototype agentic solutions on cloud AI platforms using containers, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, and deployment pipelines.
- Support technical due diligence of AI startups and emerging agentic technology partners.
- Contribute to AI governance, model onboarding documentation, agent risk assessments, and responsible AI compliance.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or graduate degree program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Preferred familiarity of at least one month with Python for software development, automation, or machine learning.
- Preferred familiarity of at least one month with AWS, Azure, Bedrock, SageMaker, or AWS AI DLC.
- Preferred familiarity of at least one month with Docker, Git, and collaborative software development.
- Preferred coursework or projects in distributed systems, cybersecurity, software engineering, multi-agent systems, or reinforcement learning.
- Interest in large language models, prompt engineering, transformer architectures, agentic AI, AI safety, AI security, adversarial testing, or responsible AI.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work independently under general supervision.
Benefits
- Paid co-op running January 2027 through May 2027, with an option for back-to-back Spring and Summer 2027 placement.
- Hybrid work schedule in Burlington, North Carolina or Durham, North Carolina, Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week.
- Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, life, short- and long-term disability, 401(k), paid or flexible time off, tuition reimbursement, and employee stock purchase plan benefits; co-op and temporary employees are eligible for the 401(k) plan.
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About Labcorp
Labcorp provides clinical laboratory testing and diagnostic services to hospitals, physicians, health systems, employers, and patients, and offers laboratory support for clinical research and drug development. The public company is headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina and trades on the NYSE under the ticker LH. Its offerings span routine and specialty testing, genetics and oncology, and central-lab services for trials used by biopharma and researchers worldwide.