AI/ML Intern Summer 2027

Veeam Software; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Holidays

Tech Stipend

Volunteer Time

Professional Development

Job summary

Veeam Software invites students to join its Summer Internship Program in San Jose, CA for 10 weeks (June–August 2027). You will be part of a fast-paced, professional team focusing on machine learning research and AI safety at scale.

As a Summer Intern, you’ll experience onboarding, weekly professional development, networking events, and hands-on model training using PyTorch or TensorFlow, with Claude tooling support, and a strong emphasis on experimentation and results.

Qualifications

• Enrollment in Master’s or PhD program in CS/AI or closely related field.
• Strong ML fundamentals and coursework in DL/ML.
• Experience training DL models in PyTorch or TensorFlow; diagnose issues.
• Ability to work on-site in San Jose, CA five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Train and improve ML models across diverse datasets and tasks.
• Analyze training curves, gradients and metrics to diagnose failures.
• Contribute to LLM/generative AI research and evaluation workflows.
• Prototype rapidly using Claude-assisted development workflows.
• Build reusable experimentation, training, and evaluation tooling for ML research.

Skills

Passion & Curiosity

ML Fundamentals

Model Training

Statistics & Experimentation

Software Engineering

Rapid Prototyping

Research Mindset

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/ML/Statistics/Data Science

Tools

Claude

Weights & Biases

MLflow

LoRA/QLoRA

Job description

• Reinforcement Learning

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world's biggest brands.

About Out Summer Internship Program

Our Summer Internship Program is designed for students entering their final year of university who are eager to gain meaningful, real-world experience in a fast paced, collaborative, and professional environment.

As a Summer Intern, you'll participate in a comprehensive onboarding experience led by our University Relations team to set you up for success from day one. Throughout the program, you also have the opportunity to participate in weekly professional development sessions, networking events, social activities, and other engaging experienced designed to support your personal and professional growth.

The program takes place from June - August 2027 (10-week program).

What We're Looking For

• Passion & Curiosity: Strong interest in machine learning research, experimentation, and understanding model behavior.
• Machine Learning Fundamentals: Strong foundation in supervised/unsupervised learning, optimization, regularization, model evaluation, and deep learning fundamentals.
• Model Training Experience: Hands-on experience training deep learning models in PyTorch or TensorFlow. Ability to diagnose poor convergence, overfitting, unstable training, gradient issues, data leakage, and weak generalization.
• Statistics & Experimentation: Strong understanding of probability, statistics, hypothesis testing, experimental analysis, and interpreting noisy results.
• Software Engineering Discipline: Ability to write clean, maintainable code with strong encapsulation, separation of concerns, modularity, and object-oriented design principles.
• Rapid Prototyping: Comfortable using Claude or similar AI tools for development, debugging, and rapid iteration.
• Research Mindset: Ability to independently investigate problems, design experiments, and analyze outcomes critically.

Nice To Have

• LLM Experience: Experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating transformer models or LLMs.
• Modern ML Tooling: Familiarity with Weights & Biases, MLflow, distributed training, mixed precision, LoRA/QLoRA, or hyperparameteroptimization.
• Research Exposure: Experience reproducing papers, participating in ML competitions, contributing to research projects, or building advanced personal projects.
• Applied AI Domains: Exposure to NLP, generative AI, multimodal systems, retrieval systems, or recommendation systems.

What You Could Be Working On

• Model Training & Evaluation: Train and improve ML models across a variety of datasets and tasks.
• Training Diagnostics: Analyze loss curves, gradients, metrics, and experiments to diagnose model failures and improve performance.
• LLM & Generative AI Research: Work on transformer models, fine-tuning workflows, evaluation systems, and generative AI applications.
• Rapid Experimentation: Prototype and iterate quickly using Claude-assisted development workflows.
• Research Tooling: Build reusable experimentation, training, and evaluation workflows for ML research.

Candidates should have completed advanced coursework in areas such as:

• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Probability & Statistics
• Linear Algebra
• Optimization
• Algorithms & Data Structures
• Artificial Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing
• Computer Vision
• Reinforcement Learning
• Software Engineering

Targeted Field of Study

Currently pursuing a Master's degree or PhD in: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Or other closely related quantitative fields

Requirements

• This role requires you to be in office 5 days a week at the San Jose, California location

Benefits

As a paid intern at Veeam, you'll receive:

• Paid Company Holidays during your internship
• Tech Stipend to help set up your workspace
• 8 Hours of Paid Volunteer Time through our Veeam Cares Program
• Personal and Professional Development through our Internship Program

We’re committed to providing a supportive and rewarding internship experience.

The pay range posted is an hourly rate of base pay. When making an offer of employment, Veeam will take into consideration the candidate's expectations, experience, education, scope of responsibility for the role, and the current market demands.

United States of America Intern Pay Range

$40 - $50 USD

Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer

and does not tolerate discrimination in any form on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. All your information will be kept confidential.