Enterprise AI Engineer Intern: Build & Govern AI Systems

Aimlroles; Florida; On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

American Express is seeking an AI Engineer Intern to contribute to AI/ML model development, LLM integrations, and intelligent services within enterprise systems. You’ll gather and prepare data, assist in testing and debugging, and help build AI capabilities from ingestion to deployment.

You will work with engineering, product, data, and risk partners to implement solutions aligned with business needs, while learning enterprise-grade practices for reliability, security, and governance.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a full-time graduate master's degree program.
• Graduate master's degree candidates with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Knowledge of Python and foundational data processing technologies.
• Foundational understanding of computer science concepts, including data structures, algorithms, debugging, testing, and problem solving.
• 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, retrieval patterns, or generative AI applications.
• Awareness of responsible AI, security, governance, compliance, and reliability considerations.
• Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, and learning agility with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and integration of AI/ML models, LLM integrations, or intelligent services into controlled or production-like systems under guidance.
• Assist with data collection, preprocessing, transformation, and management to enable model training, testing, validation, and evaluation.
• Contribute to testing, debugging, and improving AI-enabled solutions to strengthen performance, reliability, explainability, and maintainability.
• Support AI capabilities such as basic model training workflows, inference endpoints, prompt based interactions, evaluation routines, data retrieval pipelines, AI agents, or agentic workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, data, risk, security, and business partners to implement AI driven solutions aligned to business requirements.
• Document model parameters, prompts, evaluation assumptions, data pipelines, system integrations, and technical decisions to support reproducibility.
• Participate in Agile development practices, including sprint planning, stand ups, demos, retrospectives, code reviews, and team ceremonies.
• Assist in ensuring AI systems and AI enabled features align with enterprise expectations for reliability, safety, governance, security, and compliance.
• Build foundational confidence working across AI-adjacent technology areas such as APIs, cloud environments, data platforms, CI/CD, containers, model deployment patterns, and monitoring.

Skills

Python

Communication

Collaboration

Documentation

Learning agility

ML concepts

LLM APIs

Education

Graduate master's degree program

Expected graduation Dec 2027–Jun 2028

Job description

American Express is seeking an AI Engineer Intern to contribute to AI/ML model development, LLM integrations, and intelligent services within enterprise systems. You’ll gather and prepare data, assist in testing and debugging, and help build AI capabilities from ingestion to deployment.

You will work with engineering, product, data, and risk partners to implement solutions aligned with business needs, while learning enterprise-grade practices for reliability, security, and governance.