--- title: 'Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2027) at Together AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-intern-summer-2027-together-ai-san-francisco-md84jhmgfnwk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-25' --- # Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2027) at Together AI - **Company:** Together AI - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Posted:** 2026-09-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-25 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/togetherai/jobs/5232036007 ## Job description ## Role Overview As a Software Engineer Intern, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, from designing scalable systems, building product features, to optimizing performance-critical code. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust, user-focused solutions and contribute to our mission of delivering cutting-edge technology. This role is on-site at our HQ in San Francisco, CA and you’ll be placed into one of our engineering teams spanning Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Inference, and more! ## Responsibilities - Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software across our tech stack from low-level system to customer-facing UIs - Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver features and improvements - Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code with a focus on maintainability - Participate in code reviews, debugging, and performance optimization - Contribute ideas to shape the direction of our products and technical infrastructure ## Qualifications - Actively pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, earned or expected by Summer 2028 - Excellent programming skills - Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows - Ability to solve problems creatively and communicate trade-offs effectively - Bonus: Experience with web development, databases, distributed systems, or cloud platforms, OSS contributions. ## About Together AI Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month. Internship Program Details: Our internship program spans over 12 weeks where you’ll have the opportunity to work with industry-leading engineers building a cloud from the ground up and possibly contribute to influential open source projects. Our internship dates are May 17th to August 6th or June 14th to September 3rd. ## Compensation We offer competitive compensation, housing stipends, and other competitive benefits. The estimated US hourly rate for this role is $58/hr. Our hourly rates are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. ## Equal Opportunity Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. Please see our privacy policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy ## About Together AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, a full-stack platform for production AI that provides inference, fine-tuning, and GPU compute powered by cutting-edge systems research. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Vipul Ved Prakash (CEO), Ce Zhang (CTO), Tri Dao (Chief Scientist), Chris Ré, Percy Liang ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Cloud Computing - **Target customers**: B2B – AI-native startups (e.g., Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs), enterprise SaaS (Salesforce, Zoom, Zomato), and AI researchers. - **Mission**: “Significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models” — with a commitment to open and transparent AI development. ## Products & Services - **Serverless Inference**: Fast on-demand inference for open-source models with no infrastructure management. - **Batch Inference**: Asynchronous processing of massive workloads (up to 30B tokens per model) at reduced cost. - **Dedicated Model Inference**: Deploy models on dedicated GPU infrastructure for speed and control. - **Dedicated Container Inference**: GPU infrastructure optimized for generative media (video, audio, image). - **Fine-Tuning**: Fine-tune open-source models using latest research techniques (improves accuracy, reduces hallucinations). - **Accelerated Compute**: Self-serve instant clusters to thousands of GPUs, optimized with Together Kernel Collection. - **Model Shaping**: Tools to accelerate inference, model shaping, and pre-training. - **Managed Storage**: High-performance object storage and parallel filesystems with zero egress fees. - **Sandbox**: Fast, secure code sandboxes for AI app/agent development environments. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; recent Series C reportedly doubled valuation (amount undisclosed) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4) - **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $1.334B (including $800M Series C announced in mid-2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures (Aramco), and 29+ others across rounds. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 91% YoY to ~280 employees [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer) - Acquired CodeSandbox (Dec 2024) and Refuel.AI (May 2025) - Customers include Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs, AI21, Hedra, Cartesia, Salesforce, Zoom, Zomato - Published nine papers at ICML 2026; open-sourced ParallelKernelBench ## Competitive Advantages - **Full-stack AI platform** covering inference, fine-tuning, compute, storage, and sandboxes — all integrated. - **World-class research team** co-designing algorithms, kernels, and hardware (e.g., Tri Dao, co-inventor of FlashAttention). - **Open-source commitment** and contributions (models, datasets, research) build developer trust and ecosystem lock-in. - **Cost performance**: Claims 2x faster inference and 60% lower cost vs. alternatives through research-driven optimizations. ## Strategic Focus - Accelerate the shift to open-source AI by making it economically viable at scale. - Continue investing in systems research (GPU programming, kernel optimization, model shaping) to improve performance and cost. - Expand enterprise adoption through dedicated deployments and partnerships. - Grow the platform’s capabilities (e.g., managed storage, sandboxes) to reduce friction for AI-native builders. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values include “Do more with less,” “Open and responsible development,” “Empower innovation,” and “Optimizers” — a research-driven, mission-oriented environment. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Primarily office-based in San Francisco (251 Rhode Island Street) with employees across 16 countries. Office perks include lunch, dinner, snacks, parking/transit stipends, and relocation support. - **Benefits**: Competitive salary and equity, 401K matching, health/dental/vision insurance, flexible PTO, generous parental leave, life and disability protection. - **Engineering Culture**: Deep focus on systems research and open-source; engineers work alongside leading AI researchers (e.g., Tri Dao, Ce Zhang). Talent sourced from Apple, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Stanford AI Lab. - **Career Growth**: 53 active job postings (as of mid-2026); roles span ML engineering, platform engineering, research, and go-to-market. High growth trajectory offers rapid advancement. ## Sources 1. [together.ai/about-us](https://www.together.ai/about-us) 2. [together.ai/](https://www.together.ai/) 3. [together.ai/careers](https://www.together.ai/careers) 4. [linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer](https://www.linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer) 5. 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