Software Engineer Intern (Winter 2027)

Togetherai; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Job summary

Together AI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Software Engineer Intern to design scalable systems, build features, and optimize performance across the stack. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions from initial scope to production.

Join one of our engineering squads—Platform, Infrastructure, SREs, or Inference—and contribute to real projects during a 12–14 week Winter internship. On-site at HQ, January to April, with housing stipends and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Pursuing CS/SE degree, expected by Summer 2028.
• Strong Python/Go/TypeScript skills.
• Able to solve problems creatively and explain trade-offs.
• Previous internships or projects experience.
• OSS contributions a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain software across the stack.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineers to ship features.
• Write clean, well-documented code with maintainability in mind.
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Contribute ideas to direction of products and infra.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

Problem solving

Education

CS/SE degree (expected by Summer 2028)

Tools

Web development

Databases

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Job description

Role Overview

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. We’re looking for engineers looking to build meaningful projects end-to-end from initial scope into production. 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 must be available for our Winter Internship Dates between January to April. You’ll also be placed into one of our engineering teams spanning Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, SREs, and Inference.

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 with experience in Python, Go, or Typescript


• Ability to solve problems creatively and communicate trade-offs effectively


• Prior experiences through internships, hackathons, or projects


• 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.

Internship Program Details:

Our internship program spans over 12 to 14 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 span between January 4th to April 9th.

Compensation

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

Equal Opportunity

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.

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