Fifer University: Summer AI Internship

Are you looking to make an impact?  

With a collaborative, diverse work environment and a strong team of smart, engaged professionals, CVP prides itself on fostering a unique culture that promotes inclusion and involvement, as well as personal and professional growth. CVP’s strong culture and commitment to its employees resulted in it being named a Washington Post Top Workplace. 

About Fifer (fifer.io)
Fifer is a reliable, trustworthy enterprise GenAI platform empowering public sector organizations, employees, and customers to obtain information, gain insights, and drive results—all running in your cloud environment with zero data leaving premises.  Fifer is purpose-built for Government with swappable LLMs, patent-pending multi-agent RAG, out-of-box apps (Chat, Expert, Audit, Analyst, Dev), and much more.

Join our 8-week summer program (June 1–July 31, 2026) as a paid AI Intern. No lectures—just relentless building. You'll build solutions to real problems in government, science, healthcare and homeland security on the Fifer platform. This will require you to be in our DC office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9-4.

What You'll Do as an Intern

Week 1:

• Hear from leaders in using AI in government, science, healthcare
• Learn about the tooling you need to know about – Fifer, GitHub, AI Agents
• Deep-dive Fifer bootcamp
• Ideate/launch app teams

Week 2–6:

• Use Fifer AI to make a concept in a reality in our downtown DC office
• Prototype, iterate, deploy (e.g., AI market analysts, client dashboards, your killer app idea) – See what others are doing and exchange lessons learned

Week 7-8:

• Polish for production + Demo Day pitch to execs, investors, customers.

Who We're Seeking

• Rising college freshman/sophomores/juniors in ANY DEGREE program – we want energetic, motivated, capable individuals with a vision for creating something amazing
• AI obsessives: You have used AI beyond a “super Google” search. Maybe you've built personal GenAI projects using tools like Claude Code or Roo, maybe you’ve contributed to open-source projects, or won hackathons. Or maybe you just have a vision for a “killer app” or an idea that would make government work better for the American people and want to learn how you can make it real using AI.
• First-principles thinkers: Break problems to atoms (e.g., "What are the primitives of consulting automation?", “How could the Veteran’s Health Administration serve patients better”) and then build it into something real boldly
• You are not afraid to make mistakes, and you learn from them
• Experience in using GenAI for web or mobile app development
• Some of you might be very familiar with Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, prompt engineering, and LLMs, but you may just be a creative with an amazing idea, and you need an AI partner to make it real.
• Active GitHub account. Not just "familiar with GitHub"—you use it. Your repo is how you show us who you are before you ever say a word to us
• Experience with either AWS or Microsoft Azure, but if not, be willing to dig in

Application process

• Receive your challenge brief: We want to see you build something with AI that solves a problem. We will provide detailed instructions after reviewing your application form.
• Interview: We want to learn about you and review your challenge brief results, and we’ll build some features together on it live.

Location

• Washington, DC (Hybrid)

About CVP

CVP is an award-winning healthcare and next-gen technology and consulting services firm solving critical problems for healthcare, national security, and public sector clients. We help organizations achieve lasting transformation.

CVP is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to actively recruiting individuals and providing advancement opportunities based on merit and legitimate job qualifications. We ensure that all associates receive equal opportunities based on their personal qualifications and job requirements. CVP strictly prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment.

At CVP, we cultivate a work environment that encourages fairness, teamwork, and respect among all associated. We are committed to maintaining a workplace where everyone can grow both personally and professionally.