AI Engineer Intern

<meta><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Position Overview: </strong></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">As an AI Engineer Intern, you'll work directly with business stakeholders, scientists, and engineers to design and ship AI-powered tools that improve how we operate, communicate, and make decisions across the mining and processing business unit.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><span style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">This is not a research role. You'll be building things that go into production and get used by real people on real projects. If you've shipped something with LLMs, agents, or data pipelines and you're curious about what those tools look like when applied to hard physical-world problems, this role was designed for you.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><b><strong style="background-color:white;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Key Responsibilities:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Design and build LLM-powered agents that automate and augment business workflows, ranging from document handling and stakeholder communication to operational Q&A and data retrieval</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Develop conversational interfaces over structured and unstructured data, enabling non-technical users to query operational and business data in plain English</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Integrate external data sources (commodity markets, regulatory filings, industry benchmarks) into internal tools and reporting workflows</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Collaborate with SMEs (engineers, metallurgists, and project managers) to translate domain knowledge into agent behavior, prompts, and retrieval pipelines</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Contribute to a shared Python codebase, including object-oriented modules for process modeling and data transformation</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Participate in sprint reviews and stakeholder demos, iterating rapidly based on feedback from end users</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><b><strong style="background-color:white;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Knowledge, Skills &Abilities:</strong></b></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><b><strong style="background-color:white;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Minimum Requirements:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:12pt;--listitem-marker-color:black;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Currently enrolled in an MS program in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;--listitem-marker-color:black;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Demonstrated experience shipping an AI product such as agentic assistant or a RAG — portfolio, GitHub, or prior internship evidence required</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Proficiency in Python, including working with APIs, data structures, and third-party libraries</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hands-on experience with at least one LLM framework or toolchain (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, Haystack)</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;--listitem-marker-color:black;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Comfort working with structured data (SQL or Pandas) and unstructured data (PDFs, text corpora)</span></li><li style="--listitem-marker-color:black;font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Strength in software engineering best practices</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;--listitem-marker-color:black;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;text-align:justify;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong written communication: you'll be writing prompts, specs, and documentation alongside code</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nice to Have:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Currently working on a PhD in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Software Engineering, or similar</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB), or embedding pipelines</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with industrial, scientific, or time-series data (SCADA, historians, lab reports, assay data)</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Background or coursework in a physical science or engineering discipline (e.g. mining, metallurgy, chemical engineering, geology, or similar)</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience building multi-step or tool-using agents</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;--listitem-marker-color:black;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Exposure to BI tools or data visualization (PowerBI, Streamlit)</span></li><li style="--listitem-marker-color:black;font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Experience in one or more of the following roles: Python Developer, DevOps Engineer, Data Warehouse Specialist/Data Engineer/Data Architect</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;--listitem-marker-color:black;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:black;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Prior internship or project work in an industrial, energy, or materials company</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><b><strong style="background-color:white;font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Physical Demands</strong></b></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><span style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">The work environment will be a mix of a typical office environment, a manufacturing floor and a construction site.   Noise level: Normal office, manufacturing and construction noises.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><i><b><strong style="font-size:9.5pt;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</strong></b></i></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><i><em style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills required of personnel so classified. The reporting relationship may not reflect the most recent changes to the corporate</em></i></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><i><em style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </em></i></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><i><b><strong style="font-size:9.5pt;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">USA Rare Earth proudly supports Equal Employment Opportunities</strong></b></i></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><i><em style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">USA Rare Earth's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and will provide reasonable accommodations according to applicable federal, state, and/or local laws.</em></i></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;"=""><i><em style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">For assistance applying for employment through this site due to disability, please contact People & Culture, </em></i><a href="mailto:people@usare.com" target="_blank" class="css-173makr-linkStyle" style="color:rgb(30,74,169);cursor:pointer;"><i><em style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">people@usare.com</em></i></a><i><em style="font-size:9.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">, to discuss reasonable accommodations.</em></i></p>