AI Platform Engineer Intern — Build Production AI Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive internship compensation

Hands-on mentorship

Opportunity to work on real production

Potential return-offer consideration

Daily lunches (onsite)

Job summary

Brain Co. seeks an AI Platform Engineer Intern in San Francisco to help build backend services and platform capabilities powering our AI applications in production.

You’ll contribute to APIs, shared services, developer tooling, and reliable systems used by enterprise and government customers. This undergraduate internship (junior or senior, graduating no later than June 2028) emphasizes hands‑on work on backend features, distributed services, and CI/CD, with mentorship through code reviews and

Qualifications

• Current undergraduate junior or senior graduating no later than June 2028, pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, OOP, systems, and databases.
• Experience building software in Go, TypeScript, Rust, Python, Java, or C++ or similar.
• Ability to design, implement, test, and deploy backend services and APIs.
• Familiarity with Git, testing, and debugging; interest in cloud or containerized deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC, event-driven) powering AI applications and shared platform capabilities.
• Take scoped features from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Develop modular, reusable platform components and developer-facing tooling.
• Work with databases, queues, caches, and distributed systems, focusing on consistency, retries, and failure modes.
• Improve latency, throughput, reliability, and cost via profiling and observability.
• Contribute to systems that support AI inference, data pipelines, and customer-facing workflows.
• Collaborate with Product, ML, Infrastructure, and customer teams to translate needs into technical solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and deliver with real users.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Rust

Python

Java

C++

Education

BS in CS or related field

Job description

Brain Co. seeks an AI Platform Engineer Intern in San Francisco to help build backend services and platform capabilities powering our AI applications in production.

You’ll contribute to APIs, shared services, developer tooling, and reliable systems used by enterprise and government customers. This undergraduate internship (junior or senior, graduating no later than June 2028) emphasizes hands‑on work on backend features, distributed services, and CI/CD, with mentorship through code reviews and