AI/ML Engineering Intern

Amperesand•Sunnyvale, CA

2h•Onsite

About The Position

Amperesand is hiring an AI/ML Engineering Intern to work hands-on with its startup engineering team and contribute to AI and machine learning solutions that improve reliability and accelerate product development. The intern will work across teams and closely with engineers, product owners, and internal and external stakeholders, taking ownership of production-facing work in a fast-paced environment. The role focuses on building AI/ML solutions and infrastructure for engineering workflows, including AI frameworks, agentic workflows, knowledge assistants, LLM fine-tuning and evaluation, RAG applications, machine learning models, data pipelines, and experimentation and evaluation frameworks. The intern will collaborate with Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, and Software Engineering teams. The role is full-time and onsite in Sunnyvale, five days per week; hybrid and remote work are not offered.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Rust, and TypeScript.
Experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, or similar.
Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, evaluations, and AI agents.
Understanding of machine learning fundamentals, model evaluation, and data processing.
Experience with Git and collaborative software development practices.
Strong communication, problem-solving, and teamwork skills.
Self-motivated and team-oriented, with comfort working in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment.
Available to work onsite.

Nice To Haves

Experience fine-tuning or evaluating open-source LLMs.
Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, vector databases, or agentic frameworks.
Exposure to MLOps, cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, or model deployment.
Experience applying AI/ML to engineering, manufacturing, hardware, or industrial systems.
Familiarity with CAD, PLM, simulation tools, or engineering workflows.
Interest in energy systems, power electronics, AI infrastructure, or industrial automation.
Research, open-source contributions, hackathons, or personal AI/ML projects.

Responsibilities

Design and develop AI/ML solutions that accelerate product development and engineering workflows.
Build AI frameworks, agentic workflows, and knowledge assistants to help teams access and use engineering data.
Fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize Large Language Models for domain-specific engineering use cases.
Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation applications using engineering documentation, test data, and design knowledge.
Train and deploy machine learning models to support Mechanical Design Engineering and related teams.
Partner with Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, and Software Engineers to solve high-impact business and engineering problems.
Build data pipelines, model evaluation frameworks, and AI experimentation workflows.
Document solutions and contribute production-quality code.
Bring a customer-oriented, team-first mindset to a fast-paced startup environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary and incentive stock options.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire (United States).
Company-paid basic life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance (United States).
401(k) retirement savings plan through Empower (United States).
Paid time off, paid sick days, and paid company holidays (United States).
Commuter benefits.
100% paid maternal leave for 12 weeks and paternal leave for 6 weeks (United States).
Group medical, hospitalisation and surgical insurance, outpatient or GP coverage, group term life, dental, and personal accident insurance (Singapore).
Employer and employee Central Provident Fund contributions in accordance with the CPF Act for Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
Annual leave, paid sick leave, hospitalisation leave, and Singapore public holidays, in line with or exceeding the Employment Act.
Government-paid maternity, paternity, shared parental, and childcare leave in accordance with prevailing Singapore statutory entitlements.