AI Engineer Intern

AI Engineer Intern

Astera Holdings

Location: NYC / Remote
 

About Astera

Astera builds intelligence infrastructure for event-driven systems. We develop software that transforms complex, real-world signals into structured representations that machines and humans can reason over in real time.

Our work spans data, models, and product surfaces, designed as a unified system and built for reliability at scale. 

Role Overview

As an AI Engineer at Astera, you will design, implement, and operate production systems that sit between raw data and intelligent behavior. This role focuses on applied intelligence engineering: building robust pipelines, model-driven systems, and agentic workflows that operate reliably in real-world environments.

You will collaborate closely with senior leadership and have ownership over systems that are central to the platform.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship end-to-end AI systems, from data ingestion and representation through inference, evaluation, and deployment.
  
   
• Build and maintain structured representations of real-world events, including schemas, entities, relationships, and state transitions.
  
   
• Develop model-driven pipelines that combine classical techniques with modern machine learning and LLM-based approaches where appropriate.
  
   
• Implement agentic workflows, including tool use, orchestration, memory, guardrails, and feedback loops.
  
   
• Ensure production reliability, including monitoring, data quality, failure analysis, and cost/latency optimization.
   

Scope will align with your strengths, with clear expectations around ownership and execution.

Qualifications

You are likely to succeed in this role if you:

• Have shipped AI or ML systems into production, beyond research or prototyping.
   
• Are comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces and turning them into working systems.
   
• Think rigorously about data models, abstractions, and failure modes.
   
• Value correctness, robustness, and iteration speed.
   
• Prefer small teams with high responsibility and autonomy.
   

Preferred Experience

• Knowledge graphs, entity resolution, or schema design.
  
   
• Applied LLM systems, including tool use, evaluation, safety constraints, and memory.
  
   
• Streaming or event-driven architectures.
  
   
• Experience in domains where events, uncertainty, and timing are critical.
   

Demonstrated execution matters more than pedigree.

Working at Astera

• Small, senior team with minimal bureaucracy.
  
   
• High autonomy paired with high expectations.
  
   
• Emphasis on shipping, measurement, and iteration.
  
   
• Decisions driven by evidence and signal rather than process.
   

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