AI Engineer Intern - Build Production-Ready Projects

General Employee; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

General Employee, a small founder-led team building AI employees for service businesses, is seeking an engineering intern to work on a real production problem with direct founder mentorship.

You will shape the project from investigation to implementation, testing, and release, with opportunities across a Next.js frontend, AI agent runtime, customer integrations, evaluation systems, or internal tooling. This role emphasizes tangible outcomes over demos.

Qualifications

• A project, demo, GitHub repository, or other evidence showing initiative and technical curiosity.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar systems, ask precise questions, and keep moving when path isn't fully specified.
• Clear written communication and comfort receiving direct, detailed feedback.
• Interest in building useful AI systems, product experiences, integrations, or engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• Take a scoped problem from investigation and proposal through implementation, testing, and release.
• Build in TypeScript across a Next.js application or contribute to agent and integration services.
• Write focused tests and documentation so others can trust and extend what you ship.
• Learn from customer workflows, production behavior, and direct feedback.

Job description

General Employee, a small founder-led team building AI employees for service businesses, is seeking an engineering intern to work on a real production problem with direct founder mentorship.

You will shape the project from investigation to implementation, testing, and release, with opportunities across a Next.js frontend, AI agent runtime, customer integrations, evaluation systems, or internal tooling. This role emphasizes tangible outcomes over demos.