IA Research Engineer Intern — Frontier AI & Tools

AItoolnavio; San Jose (CA); Presencial; USD 32.000 - 39.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Housing support for relocation

Daily lunch and dinner in office

Descripción de la vacante

Etched in San Jose, CA seeks talented IA Research Engineer interns for Spring/Summer 2027 to build agents that accelerate frontier token production. You will embed with our kernels team and collaborate with founders on tool-calling, MCP, and end-to-end internal products.

This role is for builders who thrive in ambiguity, possess product sense, and want ownership from problem to deployment, including evaluation design and adoption tracking.

Formación

• Progress toward a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a record of shipping projects other people use.
• Built agents for multi-step tasks beyond API calls: tool design, context management, evals, and failure analysis.
• Heavy use of coding agents, including reading transcripts and adjusting systems when an agent is confidently wrong.
• High agency in unfamiliar domains, product sense, and extreme attention to detail.

Responsabilidades

• Embed with our kernels team to identify bottlenecks and develop tools engineers use daily.
• Build and deploy LLM agents wired into our engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP.
• Create execution environments where agents verify their work with simulators, compilers, profilers, and hardware access.
• Ship internal products end to end, including interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure behind them.
• Design evaluations and track adoption to measure tool effectiveness and gaps.
• Support special projects with the founders across the company.

Conocimientos

Software engineering fundamentals

Shipping projects

Agent design

Context management

Eval design

Educación

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS/CE or related

Herramientas

DevOps

Descripción del empleo

Etched in San Jose, CA seeks talented IA Research Engineer interns for Spring/Summer 2027 to build agents that accelerate frontier token production. You will embed with our kernels team and collaborate with founders on tool-calling, MCP, and end-to-end internal products.

This role is for builders who thrive in ambiguity, possess product sense, and want ownership from problem to deployment, including evaluation design and adoption tracking.