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Software Engineer Intern
New York City, New York · Remote · Internship · Posted Oct 2, 2026
About the job
Build and ship a scoped software project to production, while using AI coding agents and creating reusable AI tools and evaluations for the team.
What you'll do
- Own a project from design through production with mentor support.
- Use coding agents and review, test, and verify their output; build an AI tool, skill, or agent workflow for the team.
- Write evaluations and tests to measure the quality of AI-powered work.
What they ask for
- Good coding fundamentals, including clean code, design patterns, data structures, APIs, and testing.
- Built projects outside class, such as side projects, hackathons, open source, or freelance work.
- Applied AI experience, such as building with an LLM API, an agent or MCP server, an end-to-end automation, or an evaluation.
- Curiosity, skepticism, and ability to learn quickly.
Nice to have
- Built an agent using tools, memory, or multiple steps without a human.
- Written AI evaluations or tests, shipped a project with real users, or deployed a project to a cloud platform.
Tools
TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Kafka, Kubernetes, GitLab, Datadog, Claude Code
AI focus
Use coding agents, build reusable AI tools or agent workflows, and evaluate AI-powered work with tests and evals.
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