Strategic Education, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
AI Engineering Intern
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What You Will Do
- Fine-tune LLMs using modern adaptation methods (e.g., parameter-efficient fine-tuning) and maintain training recipes.
- Design and implement LLM evaluation suites for instruction following, factuality, safety, and domain constraints.
- Build agentic evaluations: measure task success, tool-call correctness, multi-step reliability, and recovery behavior.
- Create regression tests and run automated evals in CI to prevent quality drift across releases.
- Instrument experiments (traces, metrics, datasets) and communicate results clearly in concise write-ups.
- Assist in special projects.
- Support business initiatives as assigned by manager.
- Job shadowing.
- Learning skills related to industry.
- Attend meetings with various teams.
Required Qualifications/Skills
- Strong Python skills and solid ML fundamentals (training loops, debugging, evaluation methodology).
- Familiarity with transformer-based LLMs and common tooling (e.g., Hugging Face ecosystem or similar).
- Proficiency using AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) to accelerate development while maintaining code quality.
- Comfort reasoning about metrics, trade-offs, and dataset bias; ability to write clean, testable code.
Education
- Currently pursuing a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).