Campus - Internship Programme - Undergraduate AI Engineer - 2027 (UK - London)
American Express11 hours ago
Westminster, United KingdomIntern
Responsibilities
- Support the development and integration of AI/ML models, LLM integrations, and intelligent services into controlled or production-like systems.
- Assist with data collection, preprocessing, transformation, and management for model training, testing, validation, and evaluation.
- Contribute to testing, debugging, performance improvement, reliability, explainability, and maintainability of AI-enabled solutions.
- 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, integrations, and technical decisions.
- Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, code reviews, and other Agile team ceremonies.
- Help ensure AI systems meet expectations for reliability, safety, governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI.
- Build foundational experience with APIs, cloud environments, data platforms, CI/CD, containers, deployment patterns, and monitoring.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a Master’s degree program in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or another technical field.
- 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 in a team environment.
- 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, and agent workflow concepts.
- Preferred familiarity with APIs, data pipelines, ETL processes, cloud environments, containers, CI/CD, version control, testing, code reviews, and collaborative software engineering workflows.
Benefits
- 10-week Summer Internship Program.
- Flexible work arrangements and schedules, including hybrid and virtual options through Amex Flex.
- Access to global on-site wellness centers with nurses and doctors, depending on location.
- Free confidential counseling support through the Healthy Minds program.
- Career development, mentorship, technical training, peer learning, and Early Careers programming.
- Employment is conditional upon successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
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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.