Software Engineer, Internship - Sovereign AI Systems

Location: New York, NY, US; onsite and required to work from an office

Salary: $10,500/month

Company

hirify.global builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, supporting high-stakes use cases across healthcare, supply chains, public safety, and other domains.

What you will do

• Build production software for deploying, operating, evaluating, and monitoring AI systems in customer-controlled environments.
• Contribute to agentic workflow infrastructure, including tool use, context assembly, permissions, execution safety, observability, and debugging.
• Design services, APIs, test harnesses, evaluation pipelines, and developer tools for operating AI systems.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to turn operational problems into durable software.
• Debug issues across services, deployments, logs, configuration, permissions, and product behavior.
• Write maintainable code, participate in code review, and communicate design decisions, tradeoffs, and results.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or a similar technical field.
• Demonstrated interest in AI systems and agentic applications.
• Experience coding in Java, Python, C++, Go, Rust, JavaScript, or a similar language.
• Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, systems programming, backend services, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work full-time for the duration of the internship.

Nice to have

• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person work is encouraged to support connectivity and innovation; this posting is onsite.
• Health and well-being support and region-dependent benefits are offered.
• hirify.global values individual strengths, skills, interests, and multiple pathways for professional growth.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations are available for candidates with disabilities.

Hiring process

• Submit an updated resume or CV in PDF format.
• Provide thoughtful responses to the application questions.