Summer 2027 Internship - Member of Technical Staff - Agent Systems

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

About Us

At Armadin, we're a group of engineers, researchers, and hackers on a mission to redefine what proactive security can do in the AI era. Cyberattacks are becoming autonomous and relentless and we believe defending against threats before they materialize is one of the most powerful ways to protect the institutions the world depends on.

We're building autonomous proactive security from the ground up, reinforcing the tradecraft of elite red teamers into purpose-built security models and agents that discover risk and remediate it before organizations are breached.

Led by Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant ($5.4B exit to Google), our team brings together researchers and engineers from Google, xAI, Meta, Stanford, and MIT to reinvent security for an adversary that never sleeps.

The Role

As a Software Engineer Intern on the Agent Platform team, you'll help build the orchestration and reasoning systems that let our security agents operate independently at scale — investigating, triaging, and remediating risk with the judgment of an elite red teamer. You'll ship production code alongside full-time engineers from day one, paired with a mentor invested in your growth, and see your work deployed against real adversaries rather than left in a sandbox.

We're a small, fast-moving team, so interns get real ownership: you'll work across the stack, from distributed backend systems to the evaluation harnesses that keep autonomous agents safe and reliable, and you'll partner directly with founders, researchers, and customer-facing engineers to understand the problems worth solving.

What You'll Do

• As a Software Engineer Intern, you'll be involved throughout the product lifecycle. From design and prototyping through shipping. While paired with a mentor dedicated to your growth. Day-to-day, you will:
• Design and build components of our agentic orchestration platform. The systems that let autonomous security agents plan, act, and self-correct.
• 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.

Required

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math, or a related technical field, with an expected graduation in 2027 or 2028.
• Comfortable writing clean, well-tested code and picking up new languages and frameworks quickly.
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Prior experience with Python, Go, or with LLM/agent frameworks is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Experience with data visualization or graph rendering (D3 or similar).
• Exposure to building products that emphasize reliability and scalability.
• Open-source contributions, hackathon projects, or independent builds that show initiative.

Technologies We Use

• Our stack centers on Python and Go for backend services, React for front-end tooling, and a mix of open-source and in-house infrastructure to orchestrate and evaluate LLM-driven agents.
• We care more about your ability to learn than the specific languages on your resume.

Benefits & Perks | FTE

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