Sycamore Forge turns hard business processes into working software. Sycamore Guard governs every AI system from request to runtime. Backed by Lightspeed.
About the role
This is a real engineering internship. You will own a piece of work that ships, that other people depend on, and that is still running after you leave. The scope will be narrower than a full-time engineer’s and you will have a direct partner accountable for your project succeeding, but the expectations for the work are the same as for anyone else here: it has to be correct, it has to be tested, and it has to hold up when someone depends on it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or recently graduated. We care about what you have built, not your year or program
- Evidence that you have built and shipped something real: a project with users, a substantial open-source contribution, a previous internship where you owned production code, or something you built because you wanted it to exist
- Solid software fundamentals. You can design a data model, write an API, reason about failure, and debug code you did not write
- The instinct to test your own work and to try the realistic path rather than the happy path
- AI-native. You use coding agents and modern models as a force multiplier while still understanding the code you ship and being able to explain your decisions
- Clear communication, including the ability to say when you are stuck
More about this role
Sycamore is building the trusted agent operating system for the enterprise. Our platform helps companies build, deploy, and orchestrate agentic apps that take on real operational work, with the security and control large organizations need.
We are a small, engineering-led team working directly with Fortune 500 enterprises. We have raised $65M from Coatue and Lightspeed, along with other investors and industry leaders.
This is a real engineering internship. You will own a piece of work that ships, that other people depend on, and that is still running after you leave. The scope will be narrower than a full-time engineer’s and you will have a direct partner accountable for your project succeeding, but the expectations for the work are the same as for anyone else here: it has to be correct, it has to be tested, and it has to hold up when someone depends on it.
We will pick your project deliberately, with you. It needs to be small enough to finish in the time available and consequential enough that finishing it matters.
Infrastructure builds and operates the substrate everything else runs on: Kubernetes-based serving, the sandboxes agents execute in, deployment and rollback,...
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