Infrastructure Engineering Intern — Own Production Features

Sycamore; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Sycamore is building the trusted agent operating system for the enterprise. We are a small, engineering-led team working directly with Fortune 500 enterprises.

This summer internship lets you own a piece of work that ships, with a partner accountable for success, but the same standards apply. You will work on infrastructure that includes Kubernetes-based serving, and you will ship production code and be judged on correctness, testing, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or recently graduated. We care about what you have built, not your year or program.
• Evidence that you have built and shipped something real: a project with users, a substantial open-source contribution, a previous internship where you owned production code, or something you built because you wanted it to exist.
• Solid software fundamentals. You can design a data model, write an API, reason about failure, and debug code you did not write.
• The instinct to test your own work and to try the realistic path rather than the happy path.
• AI-native. You use coding agents and modern models as a force multiplier while still understanding the code you ship and being able to explain your decisions.
• Clear communication, including the ability to say when you are stuck.
• Comfort with ambiguity. The problem you are given will not arrive fully specified.

Responsibilities

• Own a real project end to end, from scoping through implementation, testing, review, and deployment.
• Write production code that meets the same bar as everyone else’s, and go through the same review.
• Test your own work, including the paths that are inconvenient to test.
• Ask for help early when you are stuck, and be specific about what you have already tried.
• Document what you built well enough that the person who inherits it does not have to reconstruct your reasoning.

Skills

Solid software fundamentals

AI-native mindset

Clear communication

Ability to learn quickly

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Undergraduate or graduate CS/engineering

Job description

Sycamore is building the trusted agent operating system for the enterprise. We are a small, engineering-led team working directly with Fortune 500 enterprises.

This summer internship lets you own a piece of work that ships, with a partner accountable for success, but the same standards apply. You will work on infrastructure that includes Kubernetes-based serving, and you will ship production code and be judged on correctness, testing, and reliability.