Intern

Terracon · Austin, TX

  • Remote Only

About the role

General Responsibilities:

We are looking for a hands-on AI Engineering Intern who has already built real projects and wants to work on practical AI systems deployed in engineering and infrastructure environments. This is not a research-only position.

You will help develop AI tools that analyze pavement imagery, automate engineering workflows, build AI agents, retrieve knowledge from large document collections, and support next-generation digital products. Projects include computer vision, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), GIS integration, and edge AI deployment.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Build and improve AI agents using modern LLM frameworks
  • Develop RAG systems that search engineering documents and project archives
  • Train and evaluate computer vision models for pavement distress detection
  • Process and analyze drone, GoPro, LiDAR, and roadway imagery
  • Create image annotation, quality-control, and training pipelines
  • Experiment with edge AI deployment on NVIDIA Jetson hardware
  • Build internal applications using Python, Azure AI, Copilot Studio, and APIs
  • Integrate AI outputs with GIS, dashboards, and engineering workflows
  • Evaluate commercial AI tools and benchmark them against internal solutions
  • Prototype ideas quickly and present findings to engineers and leadership

Requirements:

  • Pursuing BS/MS in:
  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Science
  • Robotics
  • Computer Engineering
  • Related field
  • Strong Python experience
  • Experience with at least one:
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Ultralytics YOLO
  • Detectron2
  • HuggingFace
  • Experience using LLMs beyond prompting

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