AI​/ML Data Engineering Intern; Summer

Mar 2, 2026

Teacher Retirement System of Texas

Unclassified Temporary Full-Time (UFP)

Enterprise Data & Analytics

Compensation: $23.00 – 25.00, Hourly Wage

Job Closing:
March 13th at 5:00 PM, CST

Location:

TRS Headquarters Building 2
1900 Aldrich Street
Austin, Texas, 78723
United States

WHO WE ARE:

The Information Technology (IT) Division lays the foundation for TRS to deliver excellent service experiences across the organization and with our members. We serve with purpose through mentorship and collaboration across a broad variety of teams unified by innovation to create technology and information solutions that have a positive impact on our members’ lives.

We invite you to join one of Austin’s Top Workplaces. TRS offers a best-in-class combination of technology and continuous learning opportunities to equip you to solve problems, expand your knowledge, and create impact for 1 in 20 Texans.

This position is a paid, full-time, limited term assignment that offers interns the opportunity to gain substantive hands on experience. Interns enjoy the opportunity to get training and mentoring from experienced professionals in one or more areas. Interns may also be eligible to continue working part-time through the fall and spring semesters, depending on department and agency needs.

The AI/ML Data Engineering Intern performs project work and data/systems analysis related to their Information Technology focused field of study. This position will support agency operations with a primary focus on gaining practical work experience and business skills for personal development, or to satisfy educational requirements. The incumbent will proactively work with IT staff, fellow interns and other agency employees.

This position will start on June 4th and will end on August 7th of 2026 at our offices in Austin, TX.

Salary will be dependent upon education level:
Undergraduate (Junior or Senior) – $23.00/hour
Graduate Student – $25.00/hour

• Works with Data Engineers to standup a Data Governance platform.
• Works with the Data Steward to review enterprise data assets to define attributes and identify/classify critical data elements.
• Assists with building metadata repositories, business glossaries, data lineage, and training materials.
• Provides support to the Financial and Benefits groups while testing the Data warehouse load.
• Assists with enhancing existing data models.
• Researches, analyzes and develops Enterprise Applications, Data, and Integrations Models
• Enterprise Business Capability and Technology Stack Models
• Enterprise Technology Strategy, Innovation, and Initiative Models
• Enterprise Business Process & Content Management Models
• Enterprise Identity, Access, and Security Models
• Assists with creating a dashboard on details of jobs running in Talend ETL Tool:
• Daily list of all jobs, start and end times, duration
• Statistics on data (rows read, rows written, rows rejected)
• Weekly/monthly failure summary associated with reasons(upstream data issue, processing issue, bugs, etc.)
• Assists with creating a production support document, documenting a collection of all failures that have occurred in the past and how they were resolved for any/all projects.
• Assists with building a front-end tool to input the data that is required to be input in the framework spreadsheet.
• Assists with gathering catalog input information from Data Warehouse.
• Help with data models as needed.

• Assists with researching, compiling, and analyzing data; entering data into spreadsheets, databases, and other automated applications – and the creation/presentation of architectural visual models.
• Assists with reviewing, analyzing, organizing, and integrating agency information…