AI Scientist Intern

This internship is a 12-week, full-time position starting in May or June 2026

Pay Rate: $39.40/hour

• Candidates will be required to reside in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Utah for this internship, with options to work in person/remote/hybrid.
• Internship MUST be performed within Regence’s 4-state footprint.
• This position is not open to candidates who require sponsorship for employment status now or in the future.

AI Scientists work with various stakeholders to design, develop, and implement data-driven solutions. This position applies expertise in advanced analytical tools such as machine learning, deep learning, optimization, and statistical modeling to solve business problems in the healthcare payer domain. AI Scientists’ work may focus on a particular area of the business such as clinical care delivery, customer experience, or payment integrity, or they may work across several areas spanning the organization.

In addition to expertise in analysis, machine learning and deep learning, this role requires knowledge of data systems, basic software development best practices, and algorithmic design.

AI Scientists work closely with AI team members in the Product and Engineering tracks to collaboratively develop and deliver models and data-driven products. AI Scientists also collaborate and communicate with business partners to design and develop data-driven solutions to business problems and interpret and communicate results to technical and non-technical audiences.

As an intern you would work under the mentorship of another AI Scientist on some/all parts of the AI/ML lifecycle. This can be a feature in an existing product or on Proof-Of-Concepts (POCs) for a new or existing initiative.

• Researches, designs, develops, and implements data-driven models and algorithms using machine learning, deep learning, statistical, and other mathematical modeling techniques.
• Trains and tests models and develops algorithms to solve business problems.
• Adheres to standard best-practices and establishes principled experimental frameworks for developing data-driven models.
• Develops models and performs experiments and analyses that are replicable by others.
• Uses open-source packages when appropriate to facilitate model development.
• Identifies, measures, analyzes, and visualizes drivers to explain model performance (e.g., feature importance, interpretability, bias and error analysis), both offline (in the development phase) and online (in production).
• Uses appropriate metrics and quantified outcomes to drive model and algorithm improvements.
• Analyzes, diagnoses, and resolves bugs in production machine learning models and systems.
• Evaluates model/use case feasibility by quickly generating prototypes.
• Takes models from prototype stage and improves performance as needed.
• Writes clean, well-commented, tested, version-controlled, and maintainable python code.
• Collaborates with team members and Cambia business partners.
• Actively participates in group meetings and discussions.
• Communicates effectively both orally and in writing with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Keeps current with the state of the art in machine learning and AI and its application to healthcare.
• Keeps current with evolving commercial and open-source tools, techniques, and brings these practices to projects.
• Over time develops familiarity and insight with various subdomains of healthcare data.

• Demonstrated knowledge of data science, machine learning, and modeling.
• Ability to use well-understood techniques and existing patterns to build, analyze, deploy, and maintain models.
• Effective in time and task management.
• Able to develop productive working relationships with colleagues and business partners.
• Strong interest in the healthcare industry.
• Ability to read, understand, and apply the latest research to enhance our products where possible.

• Strong mathematical foundation and theoretical grasp of the concepts underlying machine learning, optimization, etc. Demonstrated understanding of how to structure simple machine learning pipelines (e.g., has prepared datasets, trained and tested models…