Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

Together AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Job summary

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, seeks a Software Engineer Intern for on-site work at our San Francisco HQ. You’ll design scalable systems, build product features, and optimize performance within a cross-functional team spanning Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Inference.

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining software, collaborating with PMs and designers, and contributing to code reviews and performance improvements.

Qualifications

• Actively pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, earned or expected by Summer 2028.
• Excellent programming skills.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software across our tech stack from low-level system to customer-facing UIs.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver features and improvements.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code with a focus on maintainability.
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and performance optimization.
• Contribute ideas to shape the direction of our products and technical infrastructure.

Skills

Excellent programming

Creative problem solving

Communication

Education

Pursuing CS/Software Eng degree

Tools

Git

Job description

As a Software Engineer Intern, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, from designing scalable systems, building product features, to optimizing performance-critical code. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust, user-focused solutions and contribute to our mission of delivering cutting-edge technology.

This role is on-site at our HQ in San Francisco, CA and you’ll be placed into one of our engineering teams spanning Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Inference, and more!

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software across our tech stack from low-level system to customer-facing UIs
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver features and improvements
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code with a focus on maintainability
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and performance optimization
• Contribute ideas to shape the direction of our products and technical infrastructure

Qualifications

• Actively pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, earned or expected by Summer 2028
• Excellent programming skills
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows
• Ability to solve problems creatively and communicate trade-offs effectively
• Bonus: Experience with web development, databases, distributed systems, or cloud platforms, OSS contributions.

About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Our internship program spans over 12 weeks where you’ll have the opportunity to work with industry-leading engineers building a cloud from the ground up and possibly contribute to influential open source projects. Our internship dates are May 17th to August 6th or June 14th to September 3rd.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, housing stipends, and other competitive benefits. The estimated US hourly rate for this role is $58/hr. Our hourly rates are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.