AI & Systems Fellow — Paid Internship

Menlo; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 22,000 - 33,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Job summary

Menlo Research offers a paid internship fellowship that runs year-round, with mentorship from a senior engineer or researcher and ownership of deliverables from day one. You will be hands-on and contribute across software engineering, systems, applied AI, or research.

The program is open to university students, high school students, or mid-career individuals, and involves interviewing and matching to real world problems. A true learning environment awaits.

Qualifications

• Open to university students, high school students, or mid-career individuals.
• Ability to read unfamiliar codebases and make safe, well scoped changes.
• Practical debugging skills: isolate problems and validate fixes.
• A grasp of software or hardware engineering basics: testing, version control, and review.
• A high ownership mindset and the ability to work independently with fast feedback loops.
• Above all, we hire for slope: how fast you grow matters more than where you start.

Responsibilities

• Own a real project end to end, from problem definition through implementation, testing, and documentation.
• Ship production grade work in one or more areas: product engineering, systems, infrastructure, applied AI, or research.
• Work on core Menlo projects, including developer tooling, model runtime and performance, automation, and reliability improvements.
• Debug real issues across codebases and environments, and propose fixes that improve correctness, performance, and maintainability.
• Write clear docs, runbooks, or internal notes that make your work easy for the team to adopt.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and researchers through code reviews and technical discussions.

Skills

Debugging

Ownership mindset

Code reviews

Testing

Version control

Tools

Git

Job description

Menlo Research offers a paid internship fellowship that runs year-round, with mentorship from a senior engineer or researcher and ownership of deliverables from day one. You will be hands-on and contribute across software engineering, systems, applied AI, or research.

The program is open to university students, high school students, or mid-career individuals, and involves interviewing and matching to real world problems. A true learning environment awaits.