Autonomous AI Agent Intern for Engineering Workflows

Keysight Technologies; Calabasas, Santa Rosa (CA, CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 77,000; Part time

Job summary

Keysight Technologies invites driven PhD students or recent graduates to join an AI internship focused on building reliable autonomous AI agent systems for multi-step engineering workflows. You will design, implement, and evaluate workflows that maintain context, use approved tools, and incorporate new information to help engineers complete work efficiently.

You will work with AI researchers, software engineers, and engineering stakeholders to ensure bounded, auditable, and recoverable actions,

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• Strong Python skills and software engineering practices (modular code, version control, reproducible pipelines).
• Hands-on experience building LLM agents with tool/function calling and orchestration.
• Experience evaluating non-deterministic systems with benchmarks and automated scoring.
• Portfolio of agent or LLM projects with evaluative details.

Responsibilities

• Build an autonomous agentic workflow that maintains task state across steps and sessions.
• Develop tool integrations connecting to approved communication, planning, document, workflow, and engineering apps.
• Implement information updates, state progression, and resumption of incomplete work.
• Design state provenance for decisions, actions, outcomes, and feedback.
• Create guardrails for approvals, bounded actions, failure recovery, and escalation.
• Measure completion rate, reliability, continuity, and human intervention against a baseline.

Skills

Python

Software engineering

Agent systems

Context management

Communication

Education

PhD or current PhD in ML/CS/EE/Applied Math

Tools

LLM agents

Tool calling

Orchestration

Context tracking

Job description

Keysight Technologies invites driven PhD students or recent graduates to join an AI internship focused on building reliable autonomous AI agent systems for multi-step engineering workflows. You will design, implement, and evaluate workflows that maintain context, use approved tools, and incorporate new information to help engineers complete work efficiently.

You will work with AI researchers, software engineers, and engineering stakeholders to ensure bounded, auditable, and recoverable actions,