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AI Engineering Intern

Crowe

Chicago IL USA, USonsite

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Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description: AI Engineering Intern Role Overview The AI Engineering Intern (Intern) supports the design, development, testing, and deployment of artificial intelligence solutions across the organization. This hands-on role provides exposure to core AI engineering practices—including model development, data preparation, and prototype creation—while contributing to supervised project tasks. Working closely with senior engineers, the intern builds foundational skills in coding standards, version control, evaluation techniques, and cloud-native development workflows. The intern collaborates with cross-functional teams, applies academic concepts to enterprise-scale systems, and gains the experience needed to grow into an entry-level engineering role.   This role emphasizes learning and skill development while delivering on assigned components, working under close supervision with frequent check-ins and code reviews, and building foundational technical skills and understanding of engineering practices. Successful interns demonstrate curiosity, initiative, and responsiveness to feedback.

In this role, you will: • Support the development of AI models and prototypes through data preparation, scripting, and experimentation

• Assist in implementing components of AI pipelines, including preprocessing, model training, and testing workflows

• Participate in code reviews and supervised engineering tasks to learn best practices

• Contribute to documentation of prototypes, experiments, and engineering processes

• Execute test cases and validation procedures to verify model performance and reliability

• Analyze datasets to extract insights and generate features under guidance

• Learn cloud-based tools, containerization, and orchestration concepts relevant to AI deployment

• Collaborate with team members to solve technical problems and complete scoped tasks

• Follow established coding, security, and compliance guidelines

• Explore emerging AI technologies and frameworks to build foundational understanding

Qualifications • Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field

• Working knowledge of foundational programming concepts and data structures, with exposure to Python

• Familiarity with core AI/ML concepts gained through coursework or independent projects

• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate effectively within a team

• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, along with containerization concepts including Docker and Kubernetes

• Introductory understanding of CI/CD practices and distributed computing fundamentals

• Curiosity-driven approach to learning, with responsiveness to feedback and coaching

• Some grounding in generative AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Hugging Face

• Beginning awareness of LLM concepts, including RAG workflows, vector databases, and fine-tuning techniques

Preferred Qualifications • Academic or project-based experience applying AI/ML concepts

• Awareness of low-code automation platforms such as Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate)

• Familiarity with developer-focused AI tools such as Replit Agent or similar agentic coding platforms

Minimum Knowledge Expectations All candidates for Crowe Studio positions are expected to demonstrate baseline AI and technical knowledge, regardless of role or level.   Core Knowledge Areas All Crowe Studio team members are expected to have working knowledge in the following areas: • Basic ML/AI literacy (training vs inference, knowledge cutoffs, LLM fundamentals)

• Prompt engineering and instruction hierarchies

• Context window and context management

• Model selection and capabilities

• Fine-tuning vs prompting vs RAG

• Hallucination and grounding strategies

• Guardrails and output validation

• Evals and testing approaches

• Security and PII awareness

• Responsible AI and governance

• LLM APIs and integration standards

• RAG and vector search

• Vector databases and embeddings

• Agentic workflows and tool use

• Cost and performance awareness

• Common enterprise use cases

What We Look For Beyond technical knowledge, we look for candidates who demonstrate: • Intellectual curiosity – asking thoughtful questions and seeking deeper understanding

• Attention to detail – noticing subtle issues and inconsistencies

• Analytical thinking – breaking down complex problems and thinking critically

• Tenacity – following issues through to resolution, even when challenging

• Strong communication – conveying ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.

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