Cybernetic Labs
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Intern - 2026-2027
$138K–$160K
San Francisco · On-site · Internship · Posted Jul 15, 2026
About the job
Build and deploy multimodal AI agents and scalable systems that automate business operations for essential service companies.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and ship AI agents; run model evaluations, fine-tuning, and A/B tests.
- Work with enterprise customers to map workflows, deploy the product, and manage rollout and iteration.
- Build reliable systems at scale and use customer insights to inform product and engineering roadmaps.
What they ask for
- Experience building and maintaining production systems using Python and TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with LLM, TTS, and speech APIs, fine-tuning, vector databases, RAG, and evaluation frameworks.
- Ability to meet SLAs and optimize systems for speed, reliability, and scale.
- Experience with production monitoring and debugging across cloud infrastructure and databases.
Pay
$138K – $160K (base salary)
Tools
Python, asyncio, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node, React, LLM, TTS
AI focus
Build multimodal AI agents for business operations; evaluate text and voice models, fine-tune them, and test them through live A/B experiments.
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