2 months ago
Los Altos, CA, USAIntern
Responsibilities
- Design and implement agent workflows with explicit state, task decomposition, tool use, and typed outputs.
- Build retrieval and citation paths that ground outputs in source evidence.
- Add evaluation, tracing, retries, observability, and recovery behavior for multi-step execution.
- Build backend services, data models, APIs, and focused product surfaces for the workflows.
- Test agent behavior against realistic success cases, failure cases, and incomplete evidence.
- Collaborate with engineers and domain experts, demonstrate progress frequently, and make pragmatic scope decisions.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field.
- Strong programming fundamentals and experience building a substantial software project, developer tool, backend system, or open-source contribution.
- Hands-on experience building a nontrivial agent, retrieval system, tool-using workflow, evaluation harness, or multi-step automation system.
- Demonstrated personal ownership of implemented work, technical decisions, and potential improvements.
- Ability to reason about state, failure modes, grounding, evaluation, and engineering tradeoffs beyond prompts and model selection.
- High agency and comfort working through ambiguous problems in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to work fully in person in Los Altos; semester or quarter interns must commit at least 20 hours per week and summer interns should be available full time.
- Preferred experience includes Python, FastAPI, Postgres, agent frameworks, retrieval systems, vector databases, backend or distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, tests, deployment, observability, security, reliable failure handling, citations, provenance, human review, open-source work, software-engineering internships, or independently shipped products.
Benefits
- Fully in-person work in Los Altos, California.
- Semester/quarter or summer internship; academic-term interns commit at least 20 hours per week and summer interns should be available full time.
- Relocation assistance may be offered selectively but is not guaranteed.
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