Entry-Level AI Engineering Jobs

SambaNova

As a new grad Cloud Platform Engineer, you will write automation and infrastructure code to ensure the SambaNova inference service remains fast and available. This role involves building monitoring and dashboards, managing Kubernetes clusters and Terraform modules, and assisting with the setup of new regions. Upon ramp-up, you will join a shared on-call rotation to support production operations.

$131k - $197k

Mercor is seeking a Research Engineer Intern to work at the intersection of engineering and applied AI research. This role will focus on owning benchmarking pipelines, evaluation systems, and failure analysis workflows that directly inform how we train and improve frontier language models. Your work will be crucial in defining how we measure tool use, agentic behavior, and real-world reasoning. You will design and run evaluations, build rubrics and scorers, and translate failure analysis into actionable improvements for post-training, RLVR, and data pipelines.

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SambaNova

SambaNova is seeking a new grad Compiler Engineer to work on core areas of our compiler, which powers the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) chip. This role involves working on the compiler's IR and pass infrastructure, model lowering and partitioning, tensor tiling, memory management, and mapping operations onto the accelerator fabric. You will gain insight into how compiler decisions impact chip performance, write production code in C++ and Python, perform low-level debugging, and collaborate with runtime and hardware teams. Senior engineers will provide code reviews and mentorship.

$131k - $197k

Figma is seeking PhD interns to join the AI Research team, focusing on the intersection of AI and Design. You will develop innovative AI solutions for design and creative products through fundamental and applied research, contributing to new AI-driven features. The team works on optimizing agentic systems, building robust evaluators, and post-training models, tackling challenging technical problems in AI and creativity. This internship offers the opportunity to publish research in leading AI/ML conferences.

$0k - $0k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a PhD GenAI Research Scientist Intern to join their Mosaic AI organization. This role focuses on pushing the frontier of domain adaptation for Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI systems, enabling them to work effectively within custom enterprise domains. You will tackle open research problems related to scaling and automating evaluation, fine-tuning with synthetic data, retrieval augmentation, and efficient inference. The intern will collaborate with the research team on projects involving adapting, improving, and evaluating existing methods, designing novel domain adaptation techniques, and composing multiple methods for efficient post-training.

$0k - $0k

Together AI

The Developer Experience (DevX) team at Together AI is responsible for how developers learn and build on the platform, managing the documentation site, API reference, quickstarts, and cookbooks. They treat documentation as a product, with content living in Git and publishing through Mintlify, synchronized with the API via CI/CD automation. The team also focuses on making content accessible to AI coding agents, developing a house style guide for AI-assisted authoring and structured content. As a Technical Writer Intern on DevX, you will write, test, and ship documentation used by thousands of developers. You will be paired with a mentor and own significant projects from scoping to launch, with real users and metrics. This is a hands-on, technical role where you will run the code you document, call APIs, and contribute to the documentation repository from your first week. Potential projects include building migration kits, making documentation agent-ready, generating CLI reference from source, and writing evaluation design tutorials.

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Mercor is a leading AI data company that organizes human intelligence to power the AI economy. We build the layer between human expertise and frontier models, enabling millions of domain experts to train AI models. Our mission is to create a new category of work where expertise drives AI advancement, requiring an ambitious and fast-paced team working alongside researchers and AI companies at the forefront of technological change. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. As a Research Engineer Intern, you will work at the intersection of engineering and applied AI research. Your contributions will directly impact post-training, RLVR, synthetic data generation, and large-scale evaluation workflows for frontier language models. The work you do will be instrumental in training LLMs to master tool use, agentic behavior, and real-world reasoning in production environments. You will shape rewards, conduct post-training experiments, and develop scalable systems to enhance model performance, while also designing and evaluating datasets, creating data augmentation pipelines, and building rubrics and evaluators to push the boundaries of LLM learning.

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Abnormal Security

Abnormal AI is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer - I to join the Misdirected Email Detection (MED) team, which plays a critical role in preventing accidental data loss by detecting and blocking misdirected outbound emails. This is a highly applied role for engineers who thrive on building, iterating, and experimenting, focusing on developing practical, end-to-end ML solutions rather than solely on model training. You will be responsible for generating and refining features, testing hypotheses, averaging signals, and translating research ideas into production-grade systems, collaborating cross-functionally to turn customer needs into measurable product improvements. The ideal candidate combines a tinkerer's mindset with technical rigor, balancing innovation with production excellence to drive experimentation, scale solutions, and deliver reliable detection capabilities that create meaningful customer impact in real-world environments.

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Parloa

As a Finance Systems Intern, you will contribute to the operation and enhancement of Parloa's quote-to-cash systems, which manage enterprise contracts. You will gain practical experience with systems like SAP Subscription Billing, NetSuite, and Salesforce, learning how signed agreements translate into accurate subscriptions and invoices. This full-time, 6-month internship in Berlin offers hands-on experience with a modern quote-to-cash technology stack within a rapidly growing AI company. You will have the opportunity to take a personal automation project from conception to completion, presenting your work at the end of the internship.

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This internship is focused on ML research mixed with applied ML and software engineering, specifically around trust and safety in LLMs. Topics include prompt injections, safety alignment and guardrails, privacy and confidentiality, and interpretability. Other topics closer aligned with the student's research may also be considered.

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Faire is a technology wholesale platform connecting independent retailers with global entrepreneurs. We leverage tech, data, and machine learning to empower local businesses. The Applied AI/ML Science team builds and maintains models that power the marketplace, including shipping and delivery estimates. This role focuses on developing models that understand products from images and text to improve predictions and enhance retailer confidence, ultimately helping brands sell more on Faire.

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Our team develops GPU-accelerated software for deep learning inference, focusing on improving the performance, memory efficiency, scalability, and deployment cost of large language models on NVIDIA GPUs. We work across model architectures, algorithms, numerical representations, inference systems, and GPU architectures to achieve these goals. This role will contribute to inference frameworks like TensorRT-LLM, helping to bring state-of-the-art models to production efficiently. We are seeking passionate interns interested in large language model inference, low-precision computing, GPU performance optimization, and hardware-software co-design.

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NVIDIA is seeking a Software Engineering Intern to join the PerfLab team. This internship offers a unique opportunity to work with leading experts on groundbreaking AI automation infrastructure projects. You will contribute to building and evaluating AI agent skills, MCP tools, and agentic workflows to enhance team efficiency. Additionally, you will develop data automation pipelines for performance test results and create interactive dashboards to present benchmark insights. This role is ideal for individuals passionate about AI and looking to make a lasting impact in an inclusive and dynamic environment.

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We are seeking a hardworking intern with expertise in Reinforcement Learning and Multi-Modal World Simulation Models to advance ML-centric autonomous driving and Physical AI solutions. The role focuses on model-centric RL, understanding world simulation models, and applying state-of-the-art algorithms to real-world applications, enabling vehicles to interpret, anticipate, and respond effectively in dynamic environments. This is an opportunity to contribute to the future of intelligent driving, where innovation drives real-world impact. If you are passionate about building simulation technologies and systems that learn, adapt, and think, we encourage you to apply. Join a team where your contributions are vital to accelerating autonomous vehicle growth with advanced solutions.

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Scale AI

Scale's Machine Learning Research team is at the forefront of AI development, building the foundation for next-generation AI systems. We push the boundaries of frontier models, focusing on safety, reliability, and alignment. Our work encompasses generative AI, reinforcement learning, advanced post-training methods, scalable oversight, synthetic data, red teaming, and evaluation science. We are developing a large-scale hybrid human-machine system to power ML pipelines for numerous industry-leading customers, supporting complex and advanced AI use cases. As an intern, you will contribute to impactful production ML applications and cutting-edge research, guided by world-class researchers and collaborating with leading teams across industry and academia. Interns are expected to deliver real, published, or shipped work.

$120k - $150k

Scale AI

Scale is seeking a New Grad Software Engineer for its Public Sector team. This role involves building core product systems to ingest and process federal datasets, supporting real-time decision-making in critical environments. You will own mission-facing work from day one, shipping features, interacting directly with government stakeholders, and iterating rapidly. The position offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects, from developing AI agent guardrails and RAG pipelines to creating data visualization tools and deploying applications in secure government environments.

$124k - $162k

Scale AI

Scale is seeking New Grad Software Engineers to join their mission of developing reliable AI systems. In this role, you will own meaningful, customer-facing work from day one, shipping products, interacting directly with customers, and iterating quickly. You will contribute to building and deploying AI applications that deliver real impact for enterprises and governments.

$124k - $162k

Scale AI

Scale's internship program offers a unique opportunity for students to contribute to real, impactful projects alongside full-time engineers. Interns will work on the same roadmaps as experienced professionals, receiving mentorship from world-class talent in a culture that emphasizes ownership, speed, and truth-seeking. Many interns find this experience so valuable that they return as full-time employees.

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Accenture

We are building the next generation of AI-native engineering talent, where AI is a core part of how engineers work, not an add-on. As an AI Engineer, you will design, build, and ship production-grade software across the full stack, using AI-assisted tooling as a standard daily practice alongside your core engineering skills. You will work on real client programs across industries, building production-grade software that connects to and supports agentic AI systems, understanding how your full-stack work integrates with agent architecture, LLM APIs, and enterprise AI pipelines. This role offers breadth across every industry and enterprise technology stack, combined with vendor fellowship access inside leading AI companies, structured AI certification pathways, and a clear development track toward agentic and forward-deployed engineering.

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NVIDIA is seeking an AI Agent Engineer Intern to join their AI Enablement Process team. This role involves identifying bottlenecks in software development workflows and building AI-powered prototypes to improve developer efficiency. The intern will design and implement AI agent capabilities for tasks like code generation, debugging, and workflow automation, collaborating with various engineering teams to integrate these solutions into NVIDIA's development environments. The position offers an opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI development in a dynamic and inclusive environment.

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Datadog

Datadog AI Research (DAIR) is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University to support PhD students working on open research problems grounded by ongoing efforts at Datadog/DAIR. You will frame a problem, run your own experiments, and write up what you find, with compute and data at a scale most academic labs cannot provide. You will collaborate with colleagues working on the same questions. DAIR is an industrial research lab motivated by practical challenges in observability and software operation, focusing on creating specialized foundation models, post-training and evaluating AI agents, and building frontier-scale machine learning systems. Internship projects are shaped with your DAIR mentor and your CMU faculty advisor.

$110k - $140k

The Robotic Visual Perception and Learning research group at NVIDIA is seeking highly motivated PhD students for research internships. This role focuses on pushing the boundaries of computer vision, robotics, and machine learning with real-world impact. Interns will have the opportunity to publish their work in top-tier conferences and collaborate with experienced mentors, with carefully crafted projects tailored to their expertise.

$0k - $0k

NVIDIA is at the forefront of the AI-City and self-driving revolution, providing powerful GPU-accelerated solutions. This internship offers an opportunity to contribute to the development of AI solutions for self-driving cars, which are increasingly reliant on AI. Interns will work on GPU computing aspects, leveraging NVIDIA's advanced libraries and hardware.

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SambaNova

As a new grad AI Performance Engineer, you will be responsible for bringing up new open-source foundation models on the SambaNova dataflow platform and optimizing their performance. This involves profiling model execution, identifying performance bottlenecks across compiler, runtime, and hardware layers, and applying optimizations such as quantization, kernel fusion, and improved scheduling. You will collaborate with machine learning, compiler, runtime, and hardware teams to integrate performance improvements into SambaNova products and benchmark throughput and latency to track changes across releases.

$131k - $197k