Altera
AI Software Development Engineer - Intern
San Jose, California, United States · Intern · Internship
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
PythonC++Distributed SystemsData StructuresVector DatabasesMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AIFPGAResearch
About the role
- Job Details: Job Description: AI Engineer - Agentic AI Systems (Fall Intern) Why This Role Matters AI is shifting from models to autonomous systems.
- We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance. $48/hr - $ 52/hr USD We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position.
Responsibilities
- Build production systems-not demos
Requirements
- Experience with:
- What We're Looking For
- Background
- Currently pursuing a Master's or PhD in CS, EE, or related field
- Technical Strength
- Hands-on experience building:
- AI/ML projects, OR
- backend / distributed systems
- Solid fundamentals in:
- data structures
- system design basics
Nice to have
- Strong coding skills in Python (C++ is a plus)
Skills
- work on cutting-edge AI (LLMs + agents + RAG)
- gain exposure to hardware-software co-design
- and grow quickly into technical leaders in AI systems
- Implement RAG pipelines for large-scale knowledge integration
- Ship end-to-end systems from data ingestion → reasoning → action
- Design multi-step reasoning workflows, not just prompt calls
- Evaluate and improve model behavior (accuracy, latency, cost)
- Work with both open-source and frontier models
- Collaborate with FPGA/ASIC teams on hardware-aware AI design
- Learn how AI systems are optimized across CPU / GPU / FPGA
- Explore efficient inference and system-level performance tradeoffs
- Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
Compensation
- We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance. $48/hr - $ 52/hr USD We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position.
Benefits
- High Learning Density
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