GenAI ML Engineer Intern: Build Scalable AI Tools

S&P Global, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Kensho, a unit of S&P Global, is seeking ML Engineer interns to join the team building a cutting-edge GenAI platform and LLM-powered applications. You will collaborate with experienced engineers in a fast-paced environment at the Cambridge HQ or NYC office.

The role offers hands-on experience across the ML lifecycle, problem framing, model selection, and deployment support, with mentorship and opportunities to learn and grow in a supportive startup‑style culture.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor's degree or higher with relevant classwork or internships in Machine Learning.
• Experience designing and iterating on agentic systems, understanding user interactions, and evaluating agent performance to enhance user experiences.
• Experience with advanced machine learning methods.
• Statistical knowledge, intuition, and experience modeling real data.
• Expertise in Python and Python‑based ML frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Pydantic AI, PyTorch).
• Demonstrated effective coding, documentation, and communication habits.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively express even complicated methods and results to a broad audience.

Responsibilities

• Solve unique challenges in agentic design and LLM orchestration, including context engineering, data access patterns, memory management, and evaluation of agent performance to ensure they meet user needs effectively.
• Lead a project to prototype, build, and test ML models and pipeline components under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Gain hands‑on experience across the ML model lifecycle, from problem framing to model selection, pipeline development, evaluation, and deployment support.
• Work within a cross‑functional team of ML Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Full‑Stack Engineers while receiving active mentorship and continuous feedback.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

Communication

Model deployment

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in related field

Tools

LangGraph

PyTorch

Transformers

HuggingFace

LightGBM

Scikit-Learn

XGBoost

Jupyter

Pandas

Weights & Biases

Langfuse

Apache Spark

AWS Athena

DVC

OpenSearch

Postgres/Pgvector

S3

SQLite

Docker

Airflow

LangFuse

LiteLLM

Ray

vLLM

Claude Code

FastAPI

Streamlit

Gradio

Job description

Kensho, a unit of S&P Global, is seeking ML Engineer interns to join the team building a cutting-edge GenAI platform and LLM-powered applications. You will collaborate with experienced engineers in a fast-paced environment at the Cambridge HQ or NYC office.

The role offers hands-on experience across the ML lifecycle, problem framing, model selection, and deployment support, with mentorship and opportunities to learn and grow in a supportive startup‑style culture.