IA Research Engineer Intern
Etched, San Jose
What you will do
- Embed with our kernels team to find high-leverage bottlenecks and help turn them into tools engineers use every day.
- Build and deploy LLM agents wired into our engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP.
- Help build execution environments where agents can verify their own work, with sandboxed access to simulators, compilers, profilers, and real hardware.
- Ship internal products end to end, including the interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure behind them.
- Design evals and track adoption to measure which tools are working and which aren’t.
- Support special projects with the founders across the company.
What you need
- Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a record of shipping projects other people use
- Built agents for multi-step tasks beyond calling an API: