Agentic AI Developer Co-op

About Labcorp

Labcorp is a global leader in laboratory services. It provides the insights that help healthcare providers, patients, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and health systems make confident decisions and improve outcomes. The company is applying advanced technologies, digital solutions and data-driven innovation across its operations to deliver more value to customers and patients.

Role Overview

Labcorp is seeking an Agentic AI Developer Co-op to join its Office of the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Team. The role is hybrid, based in Burlington, NC or Durham, NC, and runs Monday through Friday for 40 hours per week.

Job Responsibilities

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

About the Team

Labcorp is becoming an AI-native life sciences company, and the Office of the CAIO leads this change across the enterprise. Building AI agents safely and at enterprise scale is one of the company's most important technical challenges.

As a co-op, you will work alongside senior engineers and data scientists on real agent development. Projects use LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI and AutoGen, run on AWS Bedrock, SageMaker and AWS AI Deep Learning Containers (AI DLC), and work with frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Mistral.

You will also get hands-on exposure to making agents safe, including red teaming, guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls and defense-in-depth architectures. This is not a research exercise. You will contribute to agents that run in production.

Co-op Program

Labcorp co-ops take on hands-on work that complements their academic background. Along with project work, you will learn about:

• How agentic AI systems are architected and deployed at enterprise scale
• How tool-calling, function-calling and multi-step orchestration automate business workflows
• How red teaming, adversarial testing and vulnerability mitigation work in practice
• How defense-in-depth architectures enforce safe agent behavior through guardrails, observability and oversight
• How foundation models are benchmarked and selected under accuracy, cost, latency and safety constraints
• How AI governance works in a regulated healthcare industry
• How Labcorp evaluates AI startups and frontier model providers to make build versus buy decisions

Co-op Details

• Duration: Spring 2027, with an option for back-to-back Spring and Summer 2027
• Dates: January 2027 to May 2027
• Compensation: Paid co-op
• Reports to: Executive Director, AI Science and Strategy

Benefits

Employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(k), PTO or FTO, Tuition Reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Employees scheduled for fewer than 20 hours, Casual, Intern and Temporary employees are eligible only for the 401(k) Plan.

Equal Opportunity

Labcorp is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It does not tolerate harassment or discrimination and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected characteristic.