AI Ops Engineer Intern: Automate & Scale AI

Cisco; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

Cisco offers a 12-week Product Internship in San Francisco, inviting undergraduate students to work on AI Ops initiatives. You’ll join high-impact teams, contribute to automation, and gain hands-on experience with real products and architectures shaping Cisco's AI platform.

You will collaborate across engineering, operations, and product teams, learning CI/CD, cloud, and monitoring practices while delivering tangible improvements in production environments.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, Mathematics, or Software Engineering.
• Expected to continue enrollment after internship.
• Proficiency in Python or Bash scripting demonstrated via coding challenge or automation scripts/workflow samples.
• Working knowledge of Linux system operations, monitoring, or incident response basics.

Responsibilities

• Automate IT operations and streamline workflows to improve AI Ops.
• Build smart automation solutions to reduce repetitive tasks and speed incident response.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure AI production environments are scalable and resilient.

Skills

Python scripting

Bash scripting

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Education

Undergraduate student in Computer Science / Engineering / Data Science

Tools

GitHub

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Cisco offers a 12-week Product Internship in San Francisco, inviting undergraduate students to work on AI Ops initiatives. You’ll join high-impact teams, contribute to automation, and gain hands-on experience with real products and architectures shaping Cisco's AI platform.

You will collaborate across engineering, operations, and product teams, learning CI/CD, cloud, and monitoring practices while delivering tangible improvements in production environments.