AI Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

Klaviyo Campus • Boston, MA

45d • Onsite

About The Position

At Klaviyo, our Engineering team builds the foundational technologies that power how brands grow through owned marketing. As an AI Engineering Intern at Klaviyo, you’ll play a key role in designing and building scalable backend systems and user experiences that power our AI products and AI agent solutions. You’ll partner closely with product managers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists, to drive real-world impact at scale. This is a backend-heavy role with opportunities to influence architecture, async processing pipelines, distributed systems, and more.
This internship is an opportunity to apply your generative AI and agentic AI application skills in a production environment. You’ll be embedded within one of our engineering teams and work on meaningful projects that help customers interact with powerful marketing tools, all while building a strong technical foundation and connections across Klaviyo.
Interns come to Klaviyo with experience in a variety of technical skills, but they are all passionate about building, owning and scaling features end-to-end from scratch and breaking through any obstacle or technical challenge in their way. As an AI-first company you will be encouraged to use AI tools to support your work, accelerate learning, and succeed in your role.

Requirements

• Pursuing an advanced degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field, Graduating in December 2027 or May/June 2028
• Previous internship experience in AI, machine learning, or related fields, with a strong interest in building and deploying AI projects.
• Have hands-on experience building and deploying generative AI and agentic AI applications into production.
• Demonstrate practical experience with key components of agentic architectures, including orchestration, evaluation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and safety guardrails.
• Proficient in Python and modern backend frameworks (FastAPI, Django preferred).
• Experience creating human and automated evals to ensure high AI model quality.
• Able to thrive in a fast-moving, startup-like environment.

Nice To Haves

• Trained ML models in the past and deployed them in production systems to generate impact to businesses
• Experience in reinforcement learning
• Experience with large-scale data processing tools including Spark.
• Experience building large scale backend systems

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems that support scaling our AI solutions for 200K+ customers.
• Develop robust, reliable and scalable services to serve AI models in production environments.
• Contribute to evolving our agentic architecture — making our AI agents more self-sufficient and performant.
• Contribute to a culture of ownership, experimentation, and customer-centric product thinking.
• Engage with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and resolve blockers.
• Stay abreast of emerging AI trends and technologies, identifying and leveraging opportunities for their application within Klaviyo’s ecosystem.
• Work with the team on project planning and defining achievements, identifying dependencies, and meeting business goals.

Benefits

• 11-week paid experience
• Lunch is on us 5 days a week
• free snacks and drinks
• ping pong
• Nintendo Switch
• a golf simulator
• a speakeasy
• social events beyond team and project work: a Red Sox game, a Boston Harbor Cruise, trips to Kings and Versus, ice cream socials, and Ask Me Anything sessions with Klaviyo's senior leadership.
• comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern