About the role#
As an AI Engineer Intern, you will participate in a 10-week summer program focused on building, testing, and scaling AI-enabled solutions. You will work within the Enterprise Technology Services organization to contribute to real-world projects, learning how intelligent systems are developed and governed in a global enterprise environment.
What you'll do#
- Support the development and integration of AI/ML models, LLM integrations, or intelligent services into production-like systems.
- Assist with data collection, preprocessing, transformation, and management to enable model training, testing, and validation.
- Contribute to testing, debugging, and improving AI-enabled solutions to strengthen performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, data, risk, and security partners to implement AI-driven solutions that align with business requirements.
- Document model parameters, prompts, evaluation assumptions, data pipelines, and technical decisions to support reproducibility.
What you'll need#
- Currently enrolled in a full-time graduate master's degree program.
- Knowledge of Python and foundational data processing technologies.
- 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.
Location & details#
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment status: Full-time.
- Compensation: This is a paid internship.
- Note: Visa sponsorship is not provided for this position.
About American Express
American Express is a globally integrated payments company that provides products, insights, and experiences to customers and businesses. Founded in 1850, the firm maintains its headquarters in New York. It employs over 99,000 people and operates as a public company. Its core operations include network services, merchant services, corporate cards, and business travel.
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