About the role#
This internship offers hands-on experience within a startup engineering team building and experimenting with advancements in AI and Machine Learning. You will contribute to multiple teams by architecting and implementing solutions to improve reliability and accelerate development. You will work alongside engineers and product owners to solve real, production-facing challenges in a goal-oriented environment.
What you'll do#
- Design and develop AI/ML solutions to accelerate product development and engineering workflows.
- Build AI frameworks, agentic workflows, and knowledge assistants to help teams access and utilize engineering data.
- Fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize Large Language Models (LLMs) for domain-specific engineering use cases.
- Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) 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 the team.
What you'll need#
- 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, or Scikit-Learn.
- Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, Evals, 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, team-oriented approach and comfort working in an ambiguous startup environment.
Location & details#
- Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States.
- Work Modality: This is an on-site role requiring attendance 5 days a week.
- Employment Type: Full-time.
- Compensation: This is a paid internship.
About Amperesand
Amperesand produces medium voltage power conversion technology for industrial loads and AI datacenters. The company uses solid state transformers paired with software controls to manage power infrastructure. It originated as a spin-out from the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Founded in 2023, the firm maintains a staff of 11 to 50 people.
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