HCA Healthcare · 1 day ago
AI Engineering Internship
Nashville, TN
Internship
Hybrid
InternHCA Healthcare is focused on redefining patient care through digital transformation and innovation. The AI Engineering internship is a research-oriented role aimed at exploring the transformation of unstructured natural language into quantitative signals, involving the prototyping of machine learning approaches and the development of a proof-of-concept model.
BiotechnologyHealth CareHospitalMedicalPrimary and Urgent Care
Responsibilities
Investigate and prototype machine learning approaches, primarily using transformer-based architectures
Design experiments, construct training data, and iterate on model architectures
Expected outcome of the internship is a working proof-of-concept model, a supporting dataset, and a written research paper suitable for publication
Qualification
Required
Bachelors Degree
Strong ML & Deep Learning Foundations
Solid understanding of modern deep learning architectures, especially transformer-based models
Hands-on experience training neural networks using PyTorch or JAX
Familiarity with embeddings, attention mechanisms, loss functions, and optimization techniques
Experience modifying standard architectures, including custom heads and non-standard outputs
Preferred
Currently completing or recently completed a Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a closely related field
Prior research experience such as a thesis, lab work, or independent research projects
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Experience Beyond Simple Classification
Experience working with unstructured natural language inputs
Familiarity with semantic representations and embedding models
Understanding of how language models encode beliefs, uncertainty, and intent
Comfort handling hybrid inputs that combine text with numeric or contextual features
Understanding of probability distributions, uncertainty estimation, and confidence intervals
Experience modeling outputs as distributions rather than point estimates
Familiarity with Bayesian concepts or probabilistic machine learning
Ability to reason about priors, posteriors, and belief updates
Demonstrated experience creating training datasets rather than only consuming existing ones
Ability to reason about ground truth definition, noise, bias, and confounding variables
Comfort sourcing data from multiple sources, including public datasets and APIs
Experience designing datasets that reflect causal or belief-driven relationships
Ability to turn open-ended research problems into testable hypotheses
Experience reading and implementing ideas from academic papers
Comfort running experiments, analyzing results, and iterating independently
Strong intuition for identifying spurious results, data leakage, or artifacts
High Degree of Autonomy
Proven ability to work independently
Comfortable making architectural and experimental decisions
Able to self-direct exploration and identify next steps
Proactive in seeking feedback rather than waiting for instructions
Ability to clearly document model architectures, dataset assumptions, and experimental results
Comfort writing technical summaries and research-style explanations
Interest in contributing to a publishable research paper
Company
HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare provides medical education and healthcare services in locally managed facilities. It is a sub-organization of North Florida Endoscopy Center.
Founded in 1968
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.51B2025-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $3.25B
2025-02-24Post Ipo Debt· $5.25B
2014-06-25Post Ipo Debt· $3.2M
Leadership Team
Nicholas Manning
Chief Executive Officer
Nick Lane
Regional Vice President Human Resources
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