AI Platform Engineer Co-Op Intern - Build AI Infra

Brain Co.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship from experienced AI/infra/”

Real production systems exposure

Competitive co-op compensation

Lunches on site

Job summary

Brain Co. is seeking an AI Platform Engineer Co-Op Intern to join its production deployments team in a fast-paced, learning-focused environment.

You will work with experienced engineers to build and maintain AI production systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable backend services. This internship is designed for current undergraduates (junior or senior) pursuing CS/ML/Data Science, with hands-on experience from coursework or projects.

Qualifications

• Current undergraduate student (junior or senior) pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience programming through coursework, internships, research, or personal projects.
• Experience with a programming language such as Python, Go, Java, C++, or similar.
• Exposure to or interest in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, or databases.
• Familiarity with or eagerness to learn Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure, and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve Kubernetes- and Terraform-based infrastructure across production and customer environments.
• Contribute to tooling and automation that makes infrastructure easier and safer for engineers to deploy and operate.
• Work with cloud infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and containerized systems.
• Help build and improve metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and monitoring for production services.
• Investigate performance and reliability issues across distributed systems and AI workloads.
• Support infrastructure for AI inference, data pipelines, and large-scale backend services.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical problem-solving with experienced engineers.
• See the infrastructure you build power real applications used by customers at scale.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Python

Go

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Education

Undergraduate student (junior or senior)

CS/ML/Data Science related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

AWS/GCP/Azure

Observability tools

Job description

Brain Co. is seeking an AI Platform Engineer Co-Op Intern to join its production deployments team in a fast-paced, learning-focused environment.

You will work with experienced engineers to build and maintain AI production systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable backend services. This internship is designed for current undergraduates (junior or senior) pursuing CS/ML/Data Science, with hands-on experience from coursework or projects.