Alation Data & AI Intern

We’re looking for an AI and Data Engineer intern (three month contract) who’s eager to make a real impact in the world of AI and help multiple teams at Alation use AI to realize higher productivity and efficiency. You’ll be part of a small team that will design and build AI agentic applications powered by Alation’s data, in short iterations and make them available to multiple departments within the company.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys coding, working with LLMs from OpenAI and Anthropic, and learning how to turn ideas into real-world systems. You’ll get hands-on experience with modern AI frameworks while developing your skills in data, software engineering, and customer collaboration.

One more thing… We work in a hybrid model—you’ll join us in our Redwood City office to collaborate, connect, and enjoy a team atmosphere!

What You’ll Do:

• 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.