AI Intern - Project Management

Ameritas Life Insurance Corp is looking for a AI Intern – Project Management to drive the business by collaborating with data scientists, product teams, IT and business stakeholders to advance Ameritas' AI initiatives. At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services. The start date for this internship would be as soon as possible and would be a hybrid role working partially in-office and partially from home based in Lincoln, NE. What you do: Project Management: Collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, product teams, IT, and business stakeholders to define project scope and prioritize features. Define AI/ML best practices, optimize workflows, and drive innovation through research and development. Play a key role in coordinating daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, ensuring consistent team communication and progress tracking. Create and manage Azure (ADO) boards to track tasks, dependencies, and blockers for a multi-phase AI model development project. Conduct stakeholder interviews and gather requirements to align AI model capabilities with end-user needs. Document key project milestones, timelines and risks improving cross-team visibility and reporting. Assisted in translating complex AI concepts into clear presentations for business leaders and non-technical stakeholders. Support testing and validation phases by coordinating between QA, AI, and product teams to meet release deadlines. AI/Machine Learning: Contribute to building AI solutions and system & user prompts, and knowledge collections. Monitor production performance and manage model versioning. Deploy and customize LLMs, design RAG systems, develop PoCs for emerging agentic solutions, and optimize inference costs. Implement model monitoring, ensure fairness, document model lineage, and manage a model registry. Enforce AI security measures, ensure data privacy compliance, monitor model vulnerabilities, and maintain audit trails.

Ameritas Life Insurance Corp is a company that provides trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.