A/AI Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Lockheed Martin•Shelton, CT

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours. At Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and they make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. We provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life in and outside of work. The Lockheed Martin Artificial Intelligence Center (LAIC) is looking for software engineer intern who possess a passion for conceptualizing, building, testing and maturing autonomous systems. This position provides the opportunity to apply technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques in the software field to develop tangible, differentiated and meaningful solutions aimed at significantly enhancing the sustainment of complex systems and enabling future hyper-battlespace capabilities. The selected candidate will be part of a range of projects during Summer 2026 which include short-term sprints (rapid prototyping) and long-term engagements (integration, maturation of prototypes). The team is focused on supporting major projects with a small, innovative core team, leveraging AI to create and sustain state-of-the-art technologies across several Lines of Business. The selected candidate will focus on development, integration and test, spanning the complete system development lifecycle. This includes requirements generation, system and software , implementation, integration, and flight test. The candidate can be expected to be exposed to Artificial Intelligence, with opportunities for study, personal development and experimentation in this area. The candidate must exhibit self-motivation, a strong work ethic, time management and interpersonal skills. Must be a US Citizen. The candidate will be based in the Shelton, CT office, but may also work remotely.

Requirements

Pursuing Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics
Prior coding experience in Python
Familiarity with Data Science libraries (e.g. Numpy, PyTorch)
Familiarity with Software Engineering best practices
Must be a US Citizen

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Deep Learning techniques for NLP or Computer Vision
Experience working with embedded devices and/or robotic systems
Experience training/fine-tuning language models or implementing orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph)