AI Engineer Intern

Go Cadre • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

The AI Engineer Intern is a hands-on, learning-forward role embedded directly in Cadre AI’s engineering work. You won’t be writing documentation or sitting in on meetings as a spectator. You’ll be building, testing, and shipping alongside our AI team—contributing to the real systems we deploy for clients.

This is a part-time role (10–15 hours per week) designed for a student or early-career engineer who is serious about building AI systems, not just learning about them. You’ll get direct exposure to production-grade LLM pipelines, agent frameworks, and data tooling—and you’ll work day-to-day with engineers who use AI to build AI. This is an unpaid, semester internship for students seeking course credit.

Requirements

• Currently studying computer science, data science, or a closely related field
• Comfortable writing Python and motivated to learn new tools quickly
• Curious about AI and actively keeping up with new models, techniques, and frameworks
• You ask questions, take direction from mentors, and follow through on what you commit to
• Comfortable working independently on defined tasks and collaborating effectively when the work requires it

Nice To Haves

• Some hands-on experience building AI or ML projects—class projects, hackathons, or personal work all count
• Familiarity with basic LLM concepts or simple agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, or similar)
• Experience creating or working with datasets for training or evaluation purposes
• A habit of looking at real outputs to find errors—you’re not satisfied until you understand why something went wrong
• A drive to try new ideas quickly, learn from the results, and iterate

Responsibilities

• Help set up and test AI agent systems and orchestration tooling
• Assist in designing and running RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines for our knowledge bases
• Support the creation of memory systems that allow AI models to use past interactions for future decision-making
• Help build tools to track AI performance and catch quality issues before they reach clients
• Work with team members to extract and organize data from text and other document types
• Take part in error analysis to identify and solve issues with model outputs
• Join feedback sessions and apply guidance to improve AI model behavior

Benefits

• Real exposure, not busywork. You’ll work on production AI systems alongside engineers who take craft seriously. Every task connects to something that ships.
• Front-row seat. You’ll work day-to-day with the people building and running one of the fastest-growing AI consulting firms in the country.
• AI-native culture. We don’t just build AI for clients. We use it to run our own operations. You’ll learn how a team actually works with these tools at the frontier.
• Room to grow. Strong interns get more responsibility. This is a proving ground, not a placeholder.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed