AI Engineer Intern

Besty AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 279,000 - 391,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

In-person work in SoHo

Job summary

Besty AI in New York City, SoHo, is seeking a student to own end-to-end AI development in a fully in-person role. You will work directly with the Head of AI and engineering, building agentic workflows, orchestrating LLMs, and contributing to production AI systems.

We value ambitious, high-agency individuals who want to learn at a fast-growing startup and are comfortable in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities. Minimum 20 hours per week, in-person only.

Qualifications

• Aspiring founder mindset and startup interest.
• Eager to learn and join a fast-growing AI startup.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through.
• Able to work in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Independent, high-agency worker.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain internal agentic workflows and automation.
• Contribute to AI system evaluation, benchmarking, and debugging.
• Work on ad hoc initiatives to improve AI systems.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organization

Follow-through

Independent work

High agency

Startup mindset

Tools

LLM orchestration

Agent tooling

Prompting

Job description

Location: New York City, SoHo (Fully In-Person)

About Besty AI

Besty AI is the leading AI-native operating system for the $1T+ short‑term‑rental and hotel industry. We’re a venture-backed seed stage startup backed by Ridge Ventures, Armory Squared Ventures, Grand Ventures, and Bungalow Capital.

We’ve raised over $6M from the heads of the Stanford & Berkeley AI labs and investors behind Discord, Fastly, HuggingFace, Covariant, and Replicate.

Besty was founded by a property manager who scaled from 0 to 30 listings in under 10 months, an AI scientist from Yale, and an all-star team of software engineers obsessed with shipping a product loved by hundreds of paying hosts. We’re proud to serve 10,000+ properties worldwide with practical AI applications to make their daily lives easier.

We're looking for an ambitious student ready to take end-to-end ownership, ship production AI, and learn how a fast-growing startup operates.

About the role

• Work directly with the Head of AI and engineering team
• Agentic development, LLM orchestration, and prompting experience is a plus
• Minimum 20 hours per week (hiring both part-time and full-time)
• We only work in-person at our office in SoHo, Manhattan. No remote candidates

Responsibilities

• AI Agent Tooling: Develop and maintain internal agentic workflows, function-calling scripts, and custom automations
• AI System Quality: Help senior engineers build AI-enabled systems through harnessed evaluation frameworks, benchmarking model performance, and debugging production LLM pipelines
• Special Projects: Contribute to ad hoc initiatives related to AI systems and process improvements

You Might Be a Fit If

• You're interested in startups and want to be a founder someday
• You want to learn a lot and get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing AI startup
• You have strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through
• You're comfortable working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with changing priorities
• You're independent and high-agency

What We Offer

• Ideal experience to learn a ton about startups and AI product development
• Ambitious and supportive atmosphere

Hiring Manager: Head of AI