AI Engineer Internship
AI Engineer Internship
At Coaction, innovation is key to our continued success and growth. As we expand our digital and data capabilities, Artificial Intelligence will play a critical role in enhancing underwriting, operations, and customer experience. We believe the best solutions happen when product, engineering, data, security, and the business partner as one integrated team—open to ideas, ready to challenge the status quo, and focused on delivering measurable outcomes in a regulated industry.
This is our first dedicated AI Engineering internship. This role will be instrumental in shaping how we design, build, deploy, and operate AI-powered solutions safely and responsibly. The ideal candidate is pragmatic and hands-on—focused on putting AI into production (not research-only)—and comfortable building repeatable patterns, playbooks, and guardrails from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Implement AI-enabled features, services, and APIs that integrate into existing enterprise workflows and applications, while adhering to established engineering, architecture, and security practices
- Design and build integration patterns for external AI services (LLMs and ML APIs), including secure data handling, access controls, and auditability.
- Develop and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions for document-heavy workflows (e.g., submissions, endorsements, claims documentation) using enterprise data sources.
- Collaborate with Architecture and Engineering to support the implementation of an Agentic AI platform reference architecture and implementation
- Create reusable AI components including Agentic Platform components to accelerate delivery across multiple use cases.
- Partner with architecture, engineering, data, and business stakeholders to translate needs into solution designs, requirements, and delivery plans.
- Establish AI engineering best practices for testing and evaluation (quality, safety, regression testing), and incorporate them into CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement monitoring and observability for AI solutions (latency, cost, quality signals, guardrail events) and define operational runbooks.
- Collaborate with others to support AI governance controls (vendor/model intake, risk reviews, documentation, and change management).
- Contribute to security hardening for AI systems, including safeguards against prompt injection, data leakage, and misuse.
- Document designs and deliver knowledge transfer to broaden internal capability and reduce reliance on external partners over time.
- Stay up to date with AI engineering tools, platforms, and patterns and recommend pragmatic adoption aligned to business value and risk posture.
Qualifications:
- Eligible candidates MUST be rising juniors with a targeted graduation date of May 2028 (2026, 2027, or 2029 graduates will not be eligible).
- Students must currently be in pursuit of their Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
- Students with strong analytical skills and a solid technical framework
- Experience working with databases
- Determination to learn new technical skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Embraces new challenges and develops innovative solutions to problems
- Strong sense of curiosity
- Effective verbal and written communication skills; ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
Important Notes:
Coaction's internship program does NOT offer remote work. Our internship roles are 5 days a week in our Morristown office.
Candidates must be available to work a minimum of TWO full business days during business hours (9a-5p). Students can work any where between 16-40 hours a week depending on their schedule.
Candidates must live local to the Morristown, NJ area as we do not provide relocation assistance and require in office attendance. Our internship program will take place Summer 2027 from June-August.