AI Data Science Intern

Leidos is seeking a university student to join our Orlando-based team as Software Development Interns supporting Internal Research and Development (IRAD) efforts. This internship offers an opportunity to contribute to exploratory projects in Artificial Intelligence (AI) data engineering and advanced software development all in support of Leidos internal innovation and national security customer missions. We welcome applicants from a variety of academic backgrounds who have strong interest or experience in computing data or AI. This role emphasizes hands-on applied research and prototyping in modern software and AI ecosystems.

Primary Responsibilities

• Contribute to IRAD projects involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Support the development of multimodal AI systems that combine visual textual geospatial and sensor data
• Assist in designing data pipelines that transform structured and unstructured data into AI/ML-ready formats
• Prototype AI applications and perform experimental evaluations including AI safety and reliability testing
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on simulation modeling and decision support tools
• Document findings write test code and iterate based on feedback and research outcomes

Basic Qualifications

• Actively enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at the University of Central Florida
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
• Strong interest in or exposure to programming AI/ML or data science
• Familiarity with one or more modern programming languages (e.g. Python Java C JavaScript)

Preferred Qualifications

• Coursework projects or hands-on experience in areas such as:
  • Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision or Multimodal Models
  • Natural Language Processing or Large Language Models
  • Data engineering or data wrangling
• Familiarity with data labeling data cleaning or preparing training sets for AI
• Interest in AI safety bias mitigation or explainability
• Creative problem-solving skills and eagerness to work on exploratory research-driven efforts

Were not looking for perfectly polished resumes or perfect fits. Were looking for people who break limits ask hard questions and dont wait to be told whats next. At Leidos were not following the roadmap were redrawing it.

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The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.