FALL 2026 AI Engineering Intern 8 Months

Dayforce•Toronto, ON

4d•CA$28 - CA$32•Remote

About The Position

As an Intern at Dayforce, you’ll gain real-world experience with meaningful responsibilities, access to development programs, and the chance to collaborate globally, bringing new ideas and optimizing processes across multiple business units. We’re looking for an AI Engineering Intern to help us build and execute high-impact AI use cases. This role sits at the intersection of AI engineering, product development, and forward-deployed engineering - taking real business problems, rapidly prototyping solutions, and turning the best ideas into working AI-powered experiences.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or a related field.
Strong software engineering fundamentals; experience with Python, TypeScript and building applications/APIs.
Hands-on experience experimenting with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, or generative AI applications.
Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where problems may initially be loosely defined.
Strong builder mindset - you enjoy shipping, testing, learning, and iterating, not just researching.
Curiosity about how AI can solve meaningful business and product problems.

Nice To Haves

Experience with modern AI frameworks, cloud platforms, vector databases, evaluation/observability tools, or deploying AI applications into production.

Responsibilities

Build and prototype AI/LLM-powered applications, agents, and workflows against real-world use cases.
Work closely with product, engineering, architects, and business teams to translate ambiguous problems into practical AI solutions.
Experiment with LLMs, agentic architectures, RAG, tool use, evaluation frameworks, and emerging AI technologies.
Integrate AI solutions with existing products, APIs, data, and enterprise systems.
Evaluate prototypes for quality, reliability, performance, and business impact, and iterate quickly based on results.
Help take successful experiments from prototype to production and learn what it takes to deploy AI at enterprise scale.

Benefits

Experience working for one of the fastest growing Human Capital Management technology companies in the world
Access to Dayforce development programs and resources
Ability to work with, as well as create relationships with, Dayforce team members across the globe
Autonomy to bring forth new ideas and optimize existing structures within the organization
Meaningful responsibilities, enabling you to obtain ‘real-world’ experience
Dynamic hands-on exposure to multiple business-units and stakeholders across Dayforce
excellent time away from work programs
comprehensive wellness initiatives
recognition through competitive pay and benefits
community impact, including volunteer days and our charity, Dayforce Cares