Software Engineer Intern - Build Autonomous Security Agents

Ballistic Ventures; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Health, Dental, & Vision Coverage

Meaningful Equity Ownership

In-Office Meals

Haircuts at the Office

Company Sponsored Conferences & Events

401(k), HSA, and FSA Plans

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Armadin in Palo Alto is seeking a Software Engineer Intern to join the Agent Platform team. You will help build orchestration and reasoning systems that let autonomous security agents operate at scale, from design to deployment, under the guidance of a mentor.

This internship offers real ownership across the stack, opportunities to work with founders, researchers, and customer-facing engineers, and a chance to contribute to production code on real adversaries, not a sandbox.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math, or related technical field with expected graduation in 2027 or 2028.
• Ability to write clean, well-tested code and learn new languages quickly.
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Prior experience with Python or Go, or familiarity with LLM/agent frameworks is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build components of our agentic orchestration platform.
• Contribute production code to core services, balancing latency, cost, and reliability at scale.
• Build evaluation and observability tooling to measure and improve non-deterministic agent behavior.
• Pair with a dedicated mentor and collaborate with engineers, researchers, and threat-intel experts to ship features end-to-end.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and team rituals just like a full-time engineer.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Data structures

Clean code

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree student in Computer Science or related

Tools

LLM frameworks

React

Job description

Armadin in Palo Alto is seeking a Software Engineer Intern to join the Agent Platform team. You will help build orchestration and reasoning systems that let autonomous security agents operate at scale, from design to deployment, under the guidance of a mentor.

This internship offers real ownership across the stack, opportunities to work with founders, researchers, and customer-facing engineers, and a chance to contribute to production code on real adversaries, not a sandbox.