Summer 2025 Software Engineer Intern – Artificial Intelligence

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!     

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. 

We are looking for a Summer 2025 Software Engineer Intern – Artificial Intelligence to further an Amentum Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning project on the JETS II Contract.   Amentum has identified developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents to tackle individual's big pain points to drive business results.  We have developed a prototype AI agent which takes natural language inputs and creates safety support documents with minimal interaction.  

The AI Agent is an on-device LLM chatbot modeled after ChatGPT using the Gemma framework. It operates entirely offline ensuring privacy and security for NASA documents with the FAISS library for storing results and StreamLit UI.  The result is a Retrieval Augmented Generation application.

The Intern will expand and extend the AI Agent that was developed by exploring alternate LLMs and expand the input options. 

This is a temporary role not to exceed 13 weeks.

If selected, you will:

• Enhance the domain knowledge to enable more insightful and accurate responses and develop features for creating detailed reports and PowerPoint slides based on user inputs.  
• Expand input options to include images, audio, and video for a more versatile user experience.  
• Improve performance of the AI agent using tuning.
• Additional tasks could include:  
  • Create a CI/CD workflow to ensure that continuous updates of LLMs by the vendor will not cause AI Agent to break
  • Making the AI Agent compatible with ServiceNow Workflows
• Report to project lead or project manager for technical guidance, support, task assignment, and processes.
• Prepare status reports as required.
• Interact with other NASA and JETS teams and departments.
• Perform job functions based on pre-established guidelines or instructions.
• Perform other tasks as required. 

Requisition Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled at an accredited university.
• Completed at least 45 credit hours.