Forward Deployed Engineering Intern

Warp; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Warp in Los Angeles is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer Intern to work with customers, understand operations, build AI-powered products, deploy them, and own outcomes after launch. This is a three-month internship with potential to become a full-time engineer at Warp.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, operations and customers, turning workflows into software and shipping quickly. If you're gritty, fast, and enjoy solving hard problems with customers, join Warp and help shape

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and modern web tech stacks.
• Familiarity with LLMs, agents, and AI-powered workflows.
• Experience building and integrating APIs and services.
• Understanding of databases and data modeling.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and quick learning ability.

Responsibilities

• Turn manual workflows (spreadsheets, email, PDFs, portals) into software.
• Build AI agents, customer-facing products, integrations, and automations.
• Customize workflows and business rules around how customers operate.
• Connect Warp into ERPs, WMSs, TMSs, APIs, EDI, and other systems.
• Ship quickly and deploy features into real customer operations.
• Onboard users, collect feedback, fix issues, and iterate on the product.
• Scale solutions from one customer to a deployable product for many customers.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

LLMs & agentic systems

APIs & integrations

Full stack development

Databases

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

Los Angeles, CA | 3 Month Internship | Path to Full Time

Warp is building the technology layer for the physical world.

We believe logistics technology should be free, highly customizable, and built around the operation instead of forcing the operation to adapt to the software.

AI is making software dramatically cheaper and faster to build. We want to use that to give customers technology that adapts to how they actually work.

We're looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer Intern to help us build that.

You'll work directly with customers, understand their operations, build AI powered products around their problems, deploy them, and own what happens after launch.

This is a three month internship, but we're hiring with the intention of finding someone who can become a full time engineer at Warp.

We want someone with grit, intensity, and an if not me, then who? attitude.

Nothing is beneath you.

What you'll do

You work across engineering, product, operations, and directly with customers.

You might:

• Turn manual workflows running through spreadsheets, email, PDFs, and portals into software.
• Build AI agents, customer facing products, integrations, and automations.
• Customize workflows and business rules around how a customer actually operates.
• Connect Warp into ERPs, WMSs, TMSs, APIs, EDI, and other systems.
• Ship quickly and put what you build into real customer operations.
• Onboard users, collect feedback, fix what breaks, and keep improving the product.
• Take something that works for one customer and help turn it into a product we can deploy across many.

You own the lifecycle

At Warp, shipping code isn't the finish line.

If you build something for a customer, you own whether they actually use it and whether it works.

You stay close to the customer, find the friction, fix the edge cases, and keep improving it.

The problem is yours until it's solved.

What we're looking for

We're not looking for the intern with the longest resume.

We're looking for trajectory.

You should be technically strong and comfortable with some combination of:

• Python
• TypeScript or JavaScript
• LLMs and agentic systems
• APIs and integrations
• Full stack development
• Databases
• Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar tools

More importantly, you:

• Move extremely fast.
• Figure things out instead of waiting for instructions.
• Care about the outcome, not just your piece of the work.
• Are comfortable talking directly to customers.
• Keep going when things break.
• Don't walk past a problem because it belongs to someone else.
• Will do the unglamorous work required to make something actually succeed.

The environment

Warp is intensely meritocratic. Responsibility isn't determined by experience, tenure, or title. It's earned by what you can own and deliver.

If you're exceptional, your scope can grow extremely quickly.

You'll get direct feedback, work around people who move fast, and be held to a high standard.

If you're looking for a comfortable internship with narrowly defined assignments, this probably isn't the right place.

The three months

We're not giving you an intern project. We want you doing the real job.

Over three months, we want to see whether you can build, ship, work directly with customers, own products after launch, learn incredibly quickly, and earn increasing responsibility.

If you can, our goal is for this to turn into a full time engineering role at Warp.

Why Warp

AI is changing what software should cost and how customizable it can be.

We think logistics technology should evolve with it.

Instead of selling customers another rigid piece of software, we want to build technology around the way they actually operate and give it to them as part of the Warp network.

And what we build doesn't stop at the screen.

Warp connects shippers, warehouses, carriers, drivers, trucks, and packages.

When our software makes a decision, something moves in the physical world.