AI/ML Engineer Intern — Build Production Models in NOS

The Nuclear Company; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 21,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matching

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Generous vacation days

Job summary

The Nuclear Company is hiring a AI/ML Engineer Intern to join the Platform Integration & AI/Data squad. You will work on LLM-driven workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and agents that operate against NOS data and tools, deployed to production as part of a cross-disciplinary team.

This six-month co-op (Jan–June 2027) is on-site in Washington DC, with full housing and relocation provided for qualifying candidates.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a BS in CS/ML/DS/Statistics/Math or related field. Available for a full six‑month term and returning to school afterward.
• Strong Python fundamentals and hands‑on exposure to ML/LLM tooling (PyTorch, Hugging Face, or similar) through coursework or projects.
• A track record of shipping working software or ML projects (course projects, personal projects, or prior internships or co‑ops). We care about what you've built, not just what you've studied.
• This position requires access to information and technology subject to U.S. export controls. U.S. Person status (U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident) is required; visa sponsorship is not provided.
• Willing and able to work on‑site in Washington DC, five days a week, for the full six‑month term.

Responsibilities

• Ship ML and AI features inside NOS applications teams use every day: site evaluation, red flag analysis, scheduling, lessons learned, and stakeholder and project tools across active projects.
• Build AI agents and agent workflows that operate against NOS data and tools, including MCP interfaces and tool-use frameworks they depend on.
• Develop data pipelines and integrations across Palantir Foundry, AWS GovCloud, and more — and contribute to the data ontology so models and agents can use NOS data reliably.
• Build predictive and anomaly-detection models that support operations and engineering decisions, including time-series analysis of sensor data.
• Help own model quality end-to-end: eval criteria, acceptance thresholds, and regression suites that keep NOS audit-ready; triage issues and root‑cause failures.

Skills

Python

ML tooling

LLMs

Shipping ML projects

Education

BS in Computer Science / ML / Data Science / Statistics / Mathematics or related field

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

Palantir Foundry

AWS GovCloud

MLflow

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Job description

The Nuclear Company is hiring a AI/ML Engineer Intern to join the Platform Integration & AI/Data squad. You will work on LLM-driven workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and agents that operate against NOS data and tools, deployed to production as part of a cross-disciplinary team.

This six-month co-op (Jan–June 2027) is on-site in Washington DC, with full housing and relocation provided for qualifying candidates.