About the role#
This is a 10-week Summer Internship Program for graduate students. You will join the Enterprise Technology Services organization to work on real-world technology projects. You will learn how intelligent systems are built, validated, integrated, and governed in a large enterprise environment. You will work within Agile teams to explore, build, and test AI-enabled solutions.
What you'll do#
- Support the development and integration of AI/ML models, LLM integrations, or intelligent services into controlled or production-like systems.
- Assist with data collection, preprocessing, transformation, and management to enable model training, testing, and evaluation.
- 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.
- Document model parameters, prompts, evaluation assumptions, data pipelines, and technical decisions to support reproducibility.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in a full-time graduate master's degree program.
- Knowledge of Python and foundational data processing technologies.
- Understanding of machine learning concepts such as model training, evaluation, feature engineering, and experimentation.
- Experience using modern AI systems such as LLM APIs, prompt-based interactions, or generative AI applications.
- Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, and learning agility.
Location & details#
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: Hybrid.
- Employment status: Full-time.
- Compensation: This is a paid internship.
- Note: Sponsorship for work authorization is not provided.
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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