Generative AI Engineer Intern - NLP & LLM Focus

Cisco; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cisco Product Internship Program offers a 12-week summer experience designed to welcome early-career talent into this mission. Interns are embedded within high-impact teams, collaborating directly on products, platforms, and architectures shaping Cisco's future and powering the AI era.

You’ll work on cutting-edge generative AI apps, train models, and optimize performance while learning from leaders across the organization.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program (Associate's or Bachelor's)
• Qualifying education should be in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Expected to continue enrollment in degree program following completion of the internship.
• Previous experience with model building, AI/LLM development, and programming in Python, SQL, or Go, including the use of common AI libraries, in an academic, project, or professional capacity.
• Experience training or fine-tuning a neural network model, including attention to performance or scalability considerations

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement generative AI applications using large language models like GPT-4, Claude, and Llama
• Train and fine-tune models for deployment with focus on performance and scalability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into Cisco products
• Contribute to data pipelines, experimentation, and model evaluation

Skills

Python

SQL

Go

AI/LLM development

Model training

Neural networks

Education

Undergraduate student (Assoc/Bachelor)

Computer Science / Electrical Engineering / Data Science field

Tools

Docker

Job description

The Cisco Product Internship Program offers a 12-week summer experience designed to welcome early-career talent into this mission. Interns are embedded within high-impact teams, collaborating directly on products, platforms, and architectures shaping Cisco's future and powering the AI era.

You’ll work on cutting-edge generative AI apps, train models, and optimize performance while learning from leaders across the organization.