Intern – Software Engineer, Generative AI Infrastructure
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About Cisco Meraki
Cisco Meraki is a leader in cloud-managed IT, connecting people to their mission by simplifying the digital workplace. Their success is driven by a diverse and inclusive community of innovative and purposeful individuals. The company’s focus on intuitive technology allows customers to concentrate on their core objectives. Meraki fosters a culture that empowers employees to push boundaries, take risks, and support customer success. Their guiding principles center around four core values: ‘care deeply,’ ‘everybody in,’ ‘simplify everything,’ and ‘be brave.’ These values have propelled Meraki to the forefront of cloud-managed IT and have shaped a more inclusive future.
Job Description: Intern – Software Engineer, Generative AI Infrastructure
The Data Science Infrastructure team at Cisco Meraki is seeking a Software Engineering Intern to contribute to the development and alignment of the company’s business strategy. This role requires close collaboration with data engineering and data science teams to drive short-term and long-term initiatives enhancing product and customer experience. The ideal candidate is a solution-oriented, hands-on technical professional capable of independent work and leading technical efforts in building robust and scalable auto-scaling GenAI platform solutions.
Meraki collects massive amounts of data (nearly 6 million data points per second) from its global devices. The intern will work within a cross-functional team to:
• Design and develop a product feature based on Meraki’s GenAI tools and infrastructure. This involves integrating the new feature with existing systems.
• Collaborate with various teams (product and non-product) to understand functional and system requirements.
• Design systems ensuring fast, reliable, and scalable delivery of GenAI-based features across the cloud infrastructure.
• Solve challenging scaling problems to maintain seamless user experience and high uptime.
• Improve and restructure the backend architecture to accommodate increasing customer scale.
Required Skills:
• Upcoming Master’s Degree graduate.
• 2+ years of experience in Python and Scala/Java programming, and scripting languages.
• Experience writing professional production-level code and tests.
• Understanding of containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
• Experience working with and utilizing GenAI tools and frameworks such as OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Co-Pilot, and Snowflake Cortex.
• Bonus points for experience with AWS tools and services.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, excellent attention to detail, and accuracy.
The company encourages applications even if all requirements aren’t fully met, emphasizing their commitment to fostering diverse backgrounds and providing support for skill development.
