AI Strategy Intern

New York Times • New York, NY • 35min ago

The mission (https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/) of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for.

About the Role

The New AI Products and Platforms mission is a central hub for new, high-ambition AI opportunities and services at The Times. We're seeking a creative and motivated Strategy Intern to help proto@type and validate AI product concepts that could evolve into production-ready solutions. You'll work with a team of engineers, designers, product and project managers, data scientists, and newsroom stakeholders to help invent the next generation of responsible AI products at The Times.

About Our Program

Duration: 10 weeks, starting June 1, 2026.

Compensation: $40.00 per hour.

Hours: 35 hours per week.

Location: Hybrid, based in New York.

Responsibilities:

Generate low-fi proto@types of AI-powered experiences to help readers understand and navigate our journalism, amplifying our human expertise and journalistic excellence.

Design, build, and iterate on proto@types from concept through evaluation, capturing learnings and de-risking for potential production handoff.

Implement workflow orchestration and back-end services to support data processing, evaluation, and integrations with demo UIs and newsroom systems.

Evaluate model and product performance using qualitative and quantitative methods; document findings and recommendations to inform NAPP platform roadmaps.

Contribute to responsible AI practices, including privacy, bias, safety, and transparency considerations in proto@types and experiments.

Participate in demos, design critiques, and research shares, connecting explorations to NAPP's platform strategy and product bets.

Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence (https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/) and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

A portfolio of school, personal, or professional projects relevant to AI products or platforms, demonstrating curiosity, rigor, and the ability to ship proto@types.

Solid grasp of web development and deploying apps to the cloud

Preferred Qualifications:

Hands-on experience using LLMs in applications (prompting, function calling, evaluation, guardrails) or with workflow orchestration and back-end services for data processing applications.

Experience with content retrieval or RAG pipelines.

Experience with evaluation harnesses for LLM applications (e.g., unit tests for prompts, rubric-based scoring, golden datasets).

Interest in journalism and building innovative, responsible AI experiences for readers.

Enthusiasm for The New York Times and its products and experiences.

The hourly rate of base pay for this role is:

$40 - $40 USD

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world's best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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