Plexis Healthcare Systems is expanding its innovation footprint through our AI Special Ops team - a small, high-impact group focused on experimenting with emerging technologies and building next-generation AI-enabled products. PLEXIS is in need of an energetic and creative intern to help build our AI Special Ops team.

Because this position requires a minimum of 3 days a week in the office, you must be local to Southern Oregon area. If interested, please apply.

Internship Position Purpose

As an AI Research & Prompt Engineering Intern, you will help conduct research to advance AI algorithms, techniques, and methodologies. Help develop algorithms and models for solving complex AI problems, such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, or robotics. You will assist in design experiments, collect and analyze data, and develop prototypes to test new ideas and theories. Explores new approaches, refines existing techniques, and optimizes algorithms for performance and scalability.

Core Duties & Supporting Skills Development

Duties:

• Research and experiment with prompt engineering techniques for LLMs and generative AI tools.
• Develop, test, and refine AI prompts to optimize performance and accuracy across various use cases.
• Collaborate with developers and data scientists to integrate AI capabilities into applications.
• Analyze model behavior, document findings, and suggest improvements.
• Stay up to date on emerging AI models, APIs, and best practices in prompt and model design.

Preferred Skills:

• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
• Strong written communication and analytical skills.
• Familiarity with generative AI tools (e.g., OpenAI GPT models, Claude, Gemini).
• Basic programming experience with Python or JavaScript.
• Curiosity and creativity in exploring human-AI interaction and language model behavior.

Physical Activities and Requirements of this Internship Position

• Ability to access input and retrieves information from a computer to produce typed copy
• Capacity to communicate adequately, in person or via telephone, in a manner, which can be understood by those with whom the Client Support Specialist is speaking
• Capability of dialing or otherwise using a telephone to place and receive telephone calls
• Willingness and capacity to sit or stand for minimum periods of one hour at a time
• Capacity to pick up, leaf through and read books and files and other materials
• Ability to reach forward, up, down and to the side in order to move equipment up to 40 lbs.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with competing deadlines and changing priorities

Working Conditions

When in office; ability to tolerate, use, work with, in, or under:

• Florescent lighting
• Recycled air
• VDTs
• Semi-enclosed areas
• Central heating and air conditioning
• Office noise

This is a paid internship at $16.00/hr.

It is the policy of Plexis Healthcare Systems, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.