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ShyftLabs

AI Engineer Intern

Location
Ontario, CA
Arrangement
On-site
Employment type
Internship
Level
Intern
Posted
21 July 2026 (about 2 months ago)

Checked about a month agoApplications go to the employer, never to RoleSprint

About this role

What You'll Be Doing • Build and improve agent orchestration and multi-agent workflows.

• Develop agentic applications for enterprise use cases using Continuum.

• Work with different commercial and open-source models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, Qwen, Mistral, and others.

• Improve intelligent model routing based on task complexity, quality, latency, and cost.

• Build persistent memory and state-management capabilities for long-running agent workflows.

• Develop tool-calling functionality and integrations with APIs, databases, and enterprise systems.

• Work with MCP servers and function tools to connect agents with external services.

• Design context-engineering and retrieval pipelines using vector and graph databases.

• Implement AI guardrails for safety, security, access control, data privacy, and policy enforcement.

• Create evaluation pipelines to measure accuracy, groundedness, hallucination, tool usage, workflow completion, latency, and cost.

• Improve the observability and traceability of agent decisions, tool calls, and workflow execution.

• Optimize prompts, model usage, token consumption, response time, and infrastructure costs.

• Build APIs, backend services, and user-facing prototypes for agentic applications.

• Write clean, reusable, well-tested, and documented Python code.

• Contribute to Continuum’s open-source codebase, examples, documentation, and developer experience.

What We Are Looking For • Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Strong programming skills in Python.

• Good understanding of machine learning, natural language processing, and LLM fundamentals.

• Experience building at least one LLM-powered or agentic application.

• Familiarity with prompt engineering, embeddings, RAG, tool calling, and structured outputs.

• Experience working with APIs, Git, databases, and standard software engineering practices.

• Ability to research complex technical problems, experiment with different approaches, and clearly communicate results.

• Strong interest in building reliable AI systems, not just basic LLM demos

Nice to Have • Experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar technologies.

• Familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, or open-source models.

• Experience with vector databases such as Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, or Chroma.

• Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j.

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure.

• Familiarity with AI observability and evaluation tools such as Langfuse.

• Understanding of multi-tenancy, identity management, authorization, or enterprise security.

• Experience with model routing, inference optimization, prompt compression, or cost optimization.

• Contributions to open-source AI projects, research, hackathons, or technically strong personal projects.

Hourly Pay • $20 - $30/Hr (CAD)

Work location

  • Ontario, CA

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Published 21 July 2026, last checked about a month ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.

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