1 month ago
Pittsford, NY, USAIntern
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and improvement of shared AI platform capabilities and services within a defined project scope.
- Build on AI platform components to support AI-powered product experiences, including agent workflows, model integrations, and reusable platform tooling.
- Contribute to conversational interfaces, request handling, conversation flows, context management, and backend or agent integrations.
- Help develop AI observability and evaluation capabilities such as tracing, metrics, quality evaluation, debugging, and monitoring.
- Write clean, maintainable, and documented Python code.
- Help integrate models and data workflows into reliable software solutions with Data Science and Data Engineering partners.
- Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD workflows, monitoring, troubleshooting, bug investigation, and root-cause analysis.
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, agile ceremonies, cross-functional meetings, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative or technical field.
- Foundational Python programming experience through coursework, academic projects, research, hackathons, or other practical work.
- Foundational knowledge of data structures, algorithms, testing, version control, and debugging.
- Coursework, research, academic, or project experience with AI/ML systems and AI observability or evaluation concepts.
- Familiarity with Git or another version control system.
- Ability to collaborate effectively, seek guidance, communicate technical ideas clearly, and learn unfamiliar tools.
- Preferred qualifications include experience building machine learning applications in Python; exposure to Spark, Databricks, or similar distributed-computing technologies; familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure; and exposure to APIs, containers, CI/CD, or Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI-assisted development tools, plus open-source, hackathon, competition, club, or research participation, is preferred.
Benefits
- On-site internship based in Rochester, New York, with participation in Paylocity's internship programming and the P&T internship summit in Schaumburg, Illinois.
- Award-winning training, one-on-one coaching, mentorship, and hands-on learning in machine learning engineering.
- Opportunity for high-performing interns to be considered for future full-time roles based on performance, business needs, and available headcount.
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About Paylocity
Paylocity builds cloud-based human capital management software for businesses, covering payroll, HRIS, benefits, time and attendance, talent, employee engagement, and spend/expense management, plus tax services. The company sells its platform via SaaS subscriptions with add-on services. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, Paylocity is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker PCTY.