Alation Data & AI Intern
Alation is pioneering the next era of data intelligence powered by AI agents and trusted data. They are seeking an AI and Data Engineer intern to design and build AI agentic applications and improve productivity across multiple teams. This role offers hands-on experience with modern AI frameworks and collaboration with various departments.
Responsibilities
- Build purposeful AI Agents: Work with modern LLM and agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Pydantic-AI) to evaluate, benchmark, and refine performance
- Build AI-powered applications: Develop agentic systems that combine structured data, language models, and workflow to solve real-world problems
- Understand and work with the internal data warehouse as well as other business applications such as Salesforce
- Code with care: Write clean, well-structured Python code for integrations, pipelines, and intelligent systems
Skills
- Currently pursuing or recently completed B.S. in Computer Science or related field
- Curiosity and an understanding of LLMs or AI system development — from prompting to evaluation
- Comfort working with SQL and relational data
- Understanding of data pipelines and ETL using dbt, FiveTran or custom Python code
- Interest in working across the full lifecycle — from problem framing and prototyping to testing and deployment
- Clear communication skills and an ability to collaborate with both engineers and non-technical teams
- A growth mindset — you like learning new frameworks, exploring ideas, and solving open-ended problems
- M.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred
- Familiarity with tools like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift is a plus
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