About the role#
ShyftLabs is seeking an AI Engineer Intern to contribute to the development of Continuum, an enterprise AI agent execution and control platform. This is a hands-on engineering position focused on building production-ready AI agents and applications. You will work across various technical domains including agent orchestration, memory systems, model optimization, retrieval, and guardrails.
What you'll do#
- Build and improve agent orchestration and multi-agent workflows.
- Develop agentic applications for enterprise use cases using the Continuum platform.
- Integrate and work with commercial and open-source models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, Qwen, and Mistral.
- Implement AI guardrails to manage safety, security, access control, data privacy, and policy enforcement.
- Create evaluation pipelines to measure accuracy, groundedness, hallucination, tool usage, workflow completion, latency, and cost.
- Build persistent memory, state-management capabilities, and tool-calling functionality for long-running workflows.
- Design context-engineering and retrieval pipelines using vector and graph databases.
- Write clean, reusable, and documented Python code while contributing to the Continuum open-source codebase.
What you'll need#
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong programming proficiency in Python.
- Solid understanding of machine learning, natural language processing, and LLM fundamentals.
- Proven experience building at least one LLM-powered or agentic application.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, embeddings, RAG, tool calling, and structured outputs.
- Experience with APIs, Git, databases, and standard software engineering practices.
- Ability to research technical problems, experiment with various approaches, and communicate results clearly.
Location & details#
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Work Modality: Hybrid (three days per week in the Toronto office).
- Commitment: Full-time internship.
- Compensation: $20 to $30 CAD per hour.
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