Systems Engineer Summer 2027 Intern

About the role

We’re building the persistent compute layer that powers the next generation of autonomous software. Our platform spans virtualization, distributed systems, storage, networking, orchestration, and runtime infrastructure for long-running AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Distributed infrastructure for AI agent workloads.
• Persistent compute and storage primitives.
• Virtualization and sandboxing systems.
• Scheduling, orchestration, and reliability infrastructure.
• Internal developer tooling and platforms.
• Production infrastructure that powers real developers and AI agents.

Requirements

• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Experience with Rust (preferred), Go, C/C++, or similar languages.
• Coursework, research, or personal projects involving operating systems, distributed systems, networking, or systems programming.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Excitement about learning difficult technical topics quickly.
• High agency, curiosity, and excellent engineering judgment.
• Coursework or research in operating systems, distributed systems, databases, or networking.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or modern cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with virtualization, containers, or hypervisors.
• Understanding of distributed storage or consistency models.
• Open-source contributions.
• Hackathons, research, or ambitious personal infrastructure projects.
• Technical writing or systems blogs.

Qualifications

• 12-week summer internship.
• In person in San Francisco.
• Housing support provided where applicable.
• Interns work on production systems alongside full-time engineers.
• High-performing interns may receive return offers for full-time positions.

Skills

• Think abstractions are useful because you understand what’s underneath them.
• Enjoy figuring out how operating systems, networks, and distributed systems actually work.
• Care about latency, throughput, memory usage, and system reliability.
• Like debugging difficult problems and learning from them.
• Think distributed systems are fun rather than frightening.
• Read systems blogs or papers because you’re genuinely interested.
• Build things outside of class simply because you enjoy it.
• Believe the best infrastructure disappears into the background.
• Are high agency and fiercely independent.
• Say how things ought to be built, then build them.
• Are a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.
• Are hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.
• Go above and beyond in everything you do.

Benefits

• High-performing interns may receive return offers for full-time positions.

Pay

$5K - $10K / monthly

Schedule

In person in San Francisco