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AI Platform Engineer Co-Op Intern, Winter 2027

Brain Co.· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

AI Platform Engineer Co-Op Intern role focused on building and improving Kubernetes- and Terraform-based infrastructure, tooling, and AI-focused backend systems for production across hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Help build and improve Kubernetes- and Terraform-based infrastructure across production and customer environments.
  • Contribute to tooling and automation that makes infrastructure easier and safer for engineers to deploy and operate.
  • Work with cloud infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and containerized systems.
  • Help build and improve metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and monitoring for production services.
  • Investigate performance and reliability issues across distributed systems and AI workloads.
  • Support infrastructure for AI inference, data pipelines, and large-scale backend services.
  • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical problem-solving alongside experienced engineers.
  • See the infrastructure you build support real applications used by customers at scale.

Qualifications

  • Current undergraduate student (junior or senior) pursuing Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience from coursework, internships, research, or personal projects
  • Experience with Python, Go, Java, C++, or similar
  • Exposure to or interest in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, operating systems, networking, or databases
  • Familiar with or eager to learn Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure, and observability tools
  • Interest in understanding system internals and solving performance, reliability, and scale problems
  • Curiosity, proactivity, and ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced engineering environment
  • Willingness to take ownership of technical problems while learning from experienced engineers

Skills

Required:KubernetesTerraform
Nice to have:DockerCloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)Observability tools

Benefits

  • Winter / Spring Co-Op: January 11, 2027 - April 30, 2027
  • Competitive co-op compensation
  • Hands-on mentorship from experienced AI engineers and researchers
  • Opportunity to work on real production systems used globally
  • Potential return-offer consideration for future internships or full-time roles
  • Daily lunches (if onsite)
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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