Fifer University: Summer AI Internship

Customer Value Partners

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you looking to make an impact? With a collaborative, diverse work environment and a strong team of smart, engaged professionals, CVP prides itself on fostering a unique culture that promotes inclusion and involvement, as well as personal and professional growth. CVP’s strong culture and commitment to its employees resulted in it being named a Washington Post Top Workplace. Fifer is a reliable, trustworthy enterprise GenAI platform empowering public sector organizations, employees, and customers to obtain information, gain insights, and drive results—all running in your cloud environment with zero data leaving premises. Fifer is purpose-built for Government with swappable LLMs, patent-pending multi-agent RAG, out-of-box apps (Chat, Expert, Audit, Analyst, Dev), and much more. Join our 8-week summer program (June 1–July 31, 2026) as a paid AI Intern. No lectures—just relentless building. You'll build solutions to real problems in government, science, healthcare and homeland security on the Fifer platform. This will require you to be in our DC office on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9-4.

Requirements

Rising college freshman/sophomores/juniors in ANY DEGREE program
Energetic, motivated, capable individuals with a vision for creating something amazing
AI obsessives: You have used AI beyond a “super Google” search
Built personal GenAI projects using tools like Claude Code or Roo, or contributed to open-source projects, or won hackathons
Have a vision for a “killer app” or an idea that would make government work better for the American people and want to learn how you can make it real using AI
First-principles thinkers: Break problems to atoms (e.g., "What are the primitives of consulting automation?", “How could the Veteran’s Health Administration serve patients better”) and then build it into something real boldly
Not afraid to make mistakes, and you learn from them
Experience in using GenAI for web or mobile app development
Active GitHub account. Not just "familiar with GitHub"—you use it
Experience with either AWS or Microsoft Azure, but if not, be willing to dig in

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Python
Familiarity with JavaScript
Familiarity with Kotlin
Familiarity with prompt engineering
Familiarity with LLMs

Responsibilities

Hear from leaders in using AI in government, science, healthcare
Learn about the tooling you need to know about – Fifer, GitHub, AI Agents
Deep-dive Fifer bootcamp
Ideate/launch app teams
Use Fifer AI to make a concept a reality
Prototype, iterate, deploy (e.g., AI market analysts, client dashboards, your killer app idea)
See what others are doing and exchange lessons learned
Polish for production + Demo Day pitch to execs, investors, customers