Manufacturing AI Engineer Co-op

OUR TEAM: The Operations Engineering organization is made up of Process, Automation, Mechanical, Sustaining, and OT Engineers supporting manufacturing and product finishing operations across multiple campus buildings. Our teams also include several co-ops each year. This role works closely with the engineering leadership team and engineers across those disciplines. Operations Engineering regularly collaborates with other internal partners such as Quality, IT, Facilities, and Manufacturing.

YOUR ROLE: As an AI Engineering Co-op, your role is to help build the knowledge layer infrastructure and reusable workflows that support Operations Engineering's AI transformation. You will learn how engineers do their work, identify where better tooling and easier access to information would save meaningful time, and build, document, and support solutions the team can adopt and maintain after your term ends. This is an eight-month, full-time co-op, and offers hands-on experience applying emerging AI technology to real problems in a regulated manufacturing environment.

YOUR EXPERIENCE: We are looking for a naturally curious self-starter with excellent communication and documentation skills and a demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional teams to achieve our department and company objectives. Comfort talking with subject matter experts, asking good questions, and learning an unfamiliar technical domain quickly is essential. Experience or interest in Python, SQL, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation is important; experience in a regulated industry is a plus. *This is an 8-month co-op position with two possible start dates in 2027: January through August, or May through December. Candidates must be able to commit to the full 8-month term for their selected timeline.

CORE DUTIES

• Meet with engineers and subject matter experts to learn how they work, where their time goes, and what makes information hard to find, then help translate those problems into p