Software Engineering Summer Internship

Application Deadline: 15 May 2026

Department: IT

Employment Type: Internship

Location: North County

Compensation: $15.00 - $20.00 / hour

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, Develop & Optimize AI tool built on RAG framework
• LLM evaluation, output validation
• Create data ingest pipelines for various data formats and sources
• AI/ML tasks and research
• Participate in AFCEA's Summer Internship competition (SIPs)
• Collaborate daily with a team of developers

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Verbal communication
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Write well-designed, testable code
• Eagerness to learn new technologies/platforms/concepts

• Experience or knowledge of RAG, LLMs and Vector Databases
• Experience or general knowledge of AWS concepts and/or other cloud solutions providers

• The internship will be from August 15th to June 3rd. There will be an opportunity for fulltime employment at the end of the internship.
• Up to 30 hours/week, the core hours will be 10am-2pm.
• Intern and mentor will both work as part of a small team and will hold daily status meetings
• Office setting with dynamic environment based on the needs of the project