Co-op - Agentic AI Developer

Labcorp is a global leader in laboratory services, providing the insights and answers that help healthcare providers, patients, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and health systems make confident decisions and improve outcomes. Through our unparalleled science, data, technology and laboratory network, we advance diagnostics, accelerate innovation and help address some of the world’s most important health challenges. As we shape the future of healthcare, we are leveraging advanced technologies, intelligent digital solutions and data-driven innovation across our operations to enhance how work gets done and deliver greater value to customers and patients. With our global scale and deep expertise, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, grow your career and make a real impact on people’s health around the world. Together, we’re improving health and improving lives.

Labcorp is seeking an Agentic AI Developer Co-op to join our Office of the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Team located in Burlington, NC or Durham, NC with the flexibility of a Hybrid work schedule!

Work Schedule

Days/Hours: Monday through Friday / 40hrs per week

Job Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of AI agents using agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or custom orchestration layers) that automate complex, multi-step business workflows across the enterprise
• Help implement tool-calling architectures, function-calling interfaces, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations that allow agents to interact with enterprise APIs, databases, and external services in a controlled and auditable manner
• Support the build-out of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, OpenSearch) to ground agent responses in authoritative enterprise data and reduce hallucination in high-stakes contexts
• Assist with AI red teaming exercises including adversarial prompt injection testing, jailbreak resistance evaluation, tool-use abuse scenarios, and multi-turn manipulation testing to help identify vulnerabilities before agents reach production
• Help build and test runtime guardrails, input/output validators, content filters, and human-in-the-loop approval gates that enforce safe agent behavior within a multi-layer defense-in-depth architecture
• Support benchmarking and evaluation of frontier foundation models (GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Gemini, Mistral, and emerging open-source models) for agentic use cases, measuring task completion accuracy, latency, cost, safety, and failure modes
• Contribute to observability and tracing infrastructure for agent execution including structured logging, token-level attribution, decision audit trails, and cost tracking across multi-agent workflows
• Prototype agentic solutions on cloud AI platforms (AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, AWS AI DLC, Azure AI) using containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless architectures, and CI/CD pipelines
• Support evaluation of AI startups and emerging agentic technology partners, helping with technical due diligence on architectures, safety postures, and enterprise integration feasibility
• Contribute to AI governance practices including model onboarding documentation, agent risk assessments, responsible AI compliance, and alignment with regulatory requirements in healthcare and life sciences

Minimum Qualifications:

• Current enrollment in a Bachelor's or Graduate degree program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity or Information Systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1-month plus familiarity with Python for software development, automation, or machine learning
• 1-month plus familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and services like Bedrock, SageMaker, or AWS AI DLC
• 1-month plus familiarity with containerization (Docker), version control (Git), and collaborative software development practices
• 1-month plus coursework or projects in distributed systems, cybersecurity, software engineering, multi-agent systems, or reinforcement learning

Additional Job Standards:

• Interest in large language models, prompt engineering, or transformer architectures (experience with OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Hugging Face, or LangChain)
• Interest in agentic AI concepts including tool use, function calling, multi-step planning, chain-of-thought reasoning, or autonomous workflow execution
• Interest in AI safety, AI security, adversarial testing, or responsible AI (familiarity with OWASP Top 10 for LLMs or prompt injection concepts)
• Strong communication skills; both written and verbal
• Show initiative and the ability to work independently under general supervision
• Eagerness to learn how agentic AI is built, deployed, and governed inside a regulated enterprise where safety and reliability are non-negotiable

About the Team:

Labcorp is becoming an AI-native life sciences company. The Office of the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) leads this transformation across the entire enterprise, improving the customer experience, enhancing productivity, and…