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The engineer will work across research, product, engineering, and solution teams to validate new capabilities in realistic environments and convert field learning into repeatable artifacts.\nJoin the Acumen AIOps team to solve complex network and operational problems. This role combines data science, AI engineering, light-weight software development, and solution delivery to create reusable analytics, agentic applications, and automation workflows. The successful candidate will rapidly prototype with real-world data, integrate with cloud and enterprise systems, validate solutions with internal and customer-facing teams, and help transition successful concepts into supported product capabilities.\nThe internship program provides an opportunity to build descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, and agentic applications that address network operations and business opportunities using real-world data from LTE and 5G mobile networks, IP transport networks, and voice and video systems. 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