Agent Engineering Intern: Build AI Workflows (In-Person)

Cheiron; Los Altos (CA); Hybrid; USD 48,000 - 76,000; Part time

Job summary

Cheiron in Los Altos, CA is seeking an Agent Engineering Intern to build agent-driven workflows inside Cheiron's product. You will design bounded workflows, enable stateful task decomposition, and ground outputs with source evidence.

This hands-on internship is ideal for undergraduates or master's students who love building nontrivial systems, own their work, and can work in person at least 20 hours per week.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Clear personal ownership of the work: you can explain what you implemented, the decisions you made, and what you would improve.
• Ability to reason about state, failure modes, grounding, evaluation, and engineering tradeoffs—not only 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; summer interns should be available full time.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new agent workflows with explicit state, task decomposition, tool use, and typed outputs.
• Build retrieval and citation paths that ground important outputs in source evidence.
• Add evaluation, tracing, retries, observability, and recovery behavior for multi-step execution.
• Build the backend services, data models, APIs, and focused product surfaces required to make the workflow useful.
• Test agent behavior against realistic success cases, failure cases, and incomplete evidence.
• Work directly with engineers and domain experts, demonstrate progress frequently, and make pragmatic scope decisions.

Skills

Strong programming fundamentals

Agent workflows

State management

Ownership & accountability

Education

Undergraduate or Master's degree in CS/related field

Tools

Python

FastAPI

Postgres

agent frameworks

retrieval systems

vector databases

Job description

Cheiron in Los Altos, CA is seeking an Agent Engineering Intern to build agent-driven workflows inside Cheiron's product. You will design bounded workflows, enable stateful task decomposition, and ground outputs with source evidence.

This hands-on internship is ideal for undergraduates or master's students who love building nontrivial systems, own their work, and can work in person at least 20 hours per week.