Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineering Intern

About the role

Shure offers a challenging, fun, and rewarding summer internship program. The twelve-week program is offered to undergraduate and graduate students. We offer internships with a variety of work arrangements from onsite interns to fully remote in US. Each intern will receive a competitive salary. Additionally, Interns who are asked to relocate to Illinois for onsite internships will receive a housing stipend to cover living expenses. Applications will be collected, reviewed, and selected candidates will be contacted in late fall/early winter.

The AI Engineer Intern will assist in designing and building enterprise AI solutions — including AI agents, AI-powered web applications, automated AI workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems — that help teams across Shure work smarter. The intern will work alongside our cloud and generative AI delivery teams, gaining hands-on experience taking AI solutions from prototype to production on a modern cloud stack. This internship will be Hybrid in Niles, IL.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, building, and testing AI agents and agentic workflows using frameworks and services such as AWS Bedrock, Strands, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Develop and prototype AI-powered web applications and internal productivity tools
• Build and evaluate RAG pipelines, including data ingestion, embedding, retrieval, and quality evaluation
• Integrate large language models (LLMs) with enterprise data sources, APIs, and business systems
• Support prompt engineering, solution testing, and systematic evaluation of AI outputs
• Write clean, well-documented code and participate in code reviews and design discussions
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to gather requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions

Qualifications

• In-process of a Bachelor's or Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, or a related discipline
• Proficiency in Python (experience with JavaScript/TypeScript is a plus)
• Familiarity with LLMs, generative AI concepts, or prompt engineering
• Exposure to RAG, vector databases, or embeddings is a plus
• Understanding of REST APIs and integrating third-party services
• Experience with a cloud platform (AWS or Azure) is a plus
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Self-motivated with strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable working in a collaborative, hybrid team environment
• Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Shure will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas.

Benefits

• Retirement savings plans
• Paid time off
• Employee discounts
• Professional development opportunities
• Work-life balance initiatives

Pay

Each internship has an hourly rate which varies from $23-$43 per hour based on job function (Engineering, IT, Business, etc) and year completed in school (Junior, Masters 2nd year, PHD, etc).