AI Engineer Intern

The New York Times•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The New AI Products and Platforms mission is a central hub for new, high-ambition AI opportunities and services at The Times. We’re seeking a creative and motivated Engineering Intern to help prototype and validate AI product concepts that could evolve into production-ready solutions. You’ll work with a team of engineers, designers, product and project managers, data scientists, and newsroom stakeholders to help invent the next generation of responsible AI products at The Times.

Requirements

A portfolio of school, personal, or professional projects relevant to AI products or platforms, demonstrating curiosity, rigor, and the ability to ship prototypes.
Solid grasp of web development and deploying apps to the cloud; familiarity with API design and observability for prototype services.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience using LLMs in applications (prompting, function calling, evaluation, guardrails) or with workflow orchestration and back-end services for data processing applications.
Experience with content retrieval or RAG pipelines.
Experience with evaluation harnesses for LLM applications (e.g., unit tests for prompts, rubric-based scoring, golden datasets).
Interest in journalism and building innovative, responsible AI experiences for readers.
Enthusiasm for The New York Times and its products and experiences.

Responsibilities

Generate prototypes of AI-powered experiences to help readers understand and navigate our journalism, amplifying our human expertise and journalistic excellence.
Design, build, and iterate on prototypes from concept through evaluation, capturing learnings and de-risking for potential production handoff.
Implement workflow orchestration and back-end services to support data processing, evaluation, and integrations with demo UIs and newsroom systems.
Contribute to responsible AI practices, including privacy, bias, safety, and transparency considerations in prototypes and experiments.
Participate in demos, design critiques, and research shares, connecting explorations to NAPP’s platform strategy and product bets.
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.