Software Engineer Intern (Winter 2027)

About the role

As a Software Engineer Intern, you’ll work on a variety of projects—from designing scalable systems and building product features to optimizing performance‑critical code. You’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams to build robust, user‑focused solutions and contribute to the mission of delivering cutting‑edge technology. This role is on‑site at our HQ in San Francisco, CA and you must be available for the Winter Internship (January – April). Interns are placed into one of our engineering teams: Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, SREs, or Inference.

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.

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 experience through internships, hackathons, or personal projects
• Bonus: experience with web development, databases, distributed systems, cloud platforms, or open‑source contributions

Schedule

The internship runs for 12–14 weeks, with dates from January 4th to April 9th. You will work on‑site in San Francisco and have the opportunity to contribute to influential open‑source projects while working alongside industry‑leading engineers.

Pay

The estimated US hourly rate for this role is $58 per hour. Compensation is based on location, level, role, experience, skills, and job‑related knowledge.

Benefits

• Housing stipend