AI Software Engineer Intern

Location: On-site in PRC, Shanghai, China; on-site work required 4 days per week or more for an internship of at least 4 months.

Company

hirify.global develops computing technologies and systems, including artificial hirify.globalligence and software infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and optimize AI Agent runtimes, agent kernels, and task execution frameworks.
• Research and improve agent planning, reasoning, tool invocation, and execution mechanisms for complex tasks.
• Develop workflows, memory systems, tool-use capabilities, multi-agent collaboration, context management, task orchestration, state management, and execution pipelines.
• Build performance evaluation, profiling, and monitoring frameworks for Agent systems.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in large-scale and complex workloads.
• Drive Agent technology adoption in software engineering productivity, hirify.globalligent operations, and automated engineering workflows.

Requirements

• Master’s or PhD student in Computer Science, Artificial hirify.globalligence, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python, solid coding skills, and good software engineering practices.
• In-depth understanding of at least one area of deep learning systems or large model inference, including PyTorch, TorchDynamo, FX, Inductor, or LLM inference workflows such as KV cache and prefill/decode stages.
• Understanding of large language models beyond API-level usage, including inference behavior, performance bottlenecks, and engineering constraints.
• Strong problem decomposition skills and the ability to model complex engineering problems into executable AI Agent task structures.

Nice to have

• Experience with large model quantization techniques.
• Familiarity with mainstream inference acceleration or deployment frameworks.
• Knowledge of or experience in low-level kernels, operators, or performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience deploying AI Agents for real-world tasks.
• Experience with complex engineering systems such as automated testing, benchmarking, CI, or performance analysis tools.
• Open-source contributions related to models, systems, compilers, acceleration, or Agent frameworks.
• Availability for an internship of at least 4 months, with on-site work 4 days per week or more.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time student/intern position.
• On-site work model in Shanghai, China.
• Shift 1 schedule in China.
• Employment practices follow local equal-opportunity and ethical hiring requirements.