AI Strategy Intern

The New York Times•New York, NY

22h•Hybrid

About The Position

The New York Times is seeking a creative and motivated Strategy Intern to join the New AI Products and Platforms team. This role will focus on prototyping and validating AI product concepts that could evolve into production-ready solutions. The intern will collaborate with a diverse team of engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and newsroom stakeholders to invent the next generation of responsible AI products at The Times. The internship is a 10-week program starting June 1, 2026, offering $40.00 per hour for 35 hours per week, with a hybrid work model based in New York.

Requirements

Enrolled in or recent graduate of a MBA program
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

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 low-fi 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.
Evaluate model and product performance using qualitative and quantitative methods; document findings and recommendations to inform NAPP platform roadmaps.
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.