Intern - TITLE - AI Governance

About Lumen

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About Lumen's Internship Program

If you're a student eager to explore the exciting world of digital innovation, Lumen is the perfect place for you. Lumen offers an excellent opportunity to broaden your knowledge, build a strong network of support, and kickstart your career. Wondering who Lumen is? We connect the world by igniting business growth through connecting people, data and applications – quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Be on the forefront of our future - embark on your exciting journey with Lumen today!

Lumen offers a fully immersive, 10-week summer internship program. Our interns demonstrate curiosity, innovation, and a passion for advancing technology. We believe that empowering our people and helping them reach their full potential is essential for the long-term success of both Lumen and our customers.Program dates: June 1 – August 6, 2026.

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The Role

Lumen is seeking a forward-thinking Summer Intern to join its AI Governance team and help shape the future of responsible AI. This role offers hands-on experience in implementing enterprise-wide AI governance strategies aligned with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO 42001 standards. The intern will support efforts to evaluate AI systems for fairness, transparency, and accountability, refine governance policies, and translate complex regulations into operational practices.

The Main Responsibilities

· Support the implementation of Lumen’s AI governance strategy in accordance with the NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 standards.

· Assist in evaluating existing AI systems for fairness, transparency, and accountability.

· Help refine AI governance policies, standards, and procedures.

· Translate legislative and regulatory requirements into actionable operational guidelines.

· Assist in identifying and documenting AI-specific risks and controls throughout the development lifecycle to comply with the identified requirements.

· Research emerging AI policy trends and regulations like the EU AI Act, White House Executive Orders, and various state-level initiatives, and synthesize key implications for the AI Governance team.

· Execute initiatives to promote AI governance awareness across technical and legal teams.

· Collaborate with data privacy and security teams to ensure AI systems meet legal and internal standards, and improve the security review process for AI projects by boosting efficiency and teamwork..

· Focus on the identification, classification, and mitigation of algorithmic and infrastructure security risks across the AI portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide security frameworks.

· Work with other teams on MLOps and LLMOps to apply Security-by-Design in the AI pipeline, and oversee security and model/data drift issues found during ongoing monitoring of Lumen's AI projects.

 

What We Look For in a Candidate

Program eligibility is contingent on the candidate’s commitment of the entire 10-week program. No exceptions will be made

Required qualification

• Enrolled at a 4-year accredited college or university, rising senior level education status at the start of the internship.
• Graduating August 2026 – May 2028
• Preferred fields include bur not limited to: · Preferred fields include but not limited to: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Public Policy, Data Science, Law, Ethics, or a related field. 
• Intern must be able to work 40 hours per week during the 10-week program (June 1 – August 6, 2065)

Proficiency and understanding of:

· Strong interest in AI lifecycle, NIST AI Risk Management Framework (RMF), AI ethics, and regulatory trends and proposals, and their application to enterprise AI Governance.

· Common security risks specific to AI/ML and emerging AI technologies (e.g., adversarial attacks, model exfiltrati