Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Fall 2025, Hybrid in San Jose, CA)
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Start: September-October 2025
Duration: 3-6 months, 20-40 hours per week
Location: Hybrid in San Jose, CA
At Tessera Labs, we are revolutionizing business process automation with cutting-edge AI agent technology. Backed by Foundation Capital and Clear Ventures and led by a world-class founding team, we are assembling a high-impact engineering team to bring AI-powered automation to the enterprise world.
Our multi-agent AI systems transform complex business workflows, eliminating inefficiencies, optimizing operations, and enabling seamless integrations across platforms like SAP, Salesforce, and Workday. We move fast, solve hard problems, and build at the bleeding edge of AI.
Job Summary
As we build to the next level, we’re looking for a top-quality ML Engineers - someone who knows how to leverage LLMs, both open-source and closed, in combination with complex tool-calling hierarchies, operation patterns, and has experience working with MCPs.
This is an opportunity to build scalable, secure, and high-impact AI technologies for the future of enterprise, working with Fortune 50 clients. If you thrive in high-growth, fast-moving environments and are passionate about AI, ML, and AI agents, we want to hear from you.
This is a contract role paying $70/hour, with a strong path to full-time conversion at Tessera Labs.
Key Responsibilities
1. AI Agent Building (60%)
Develop complex multi-step agentic pipelines around open- and closed-source LLMs.
Build tools enabling AIs to interact with critical enterprise software platforms.
Ensure AI designs align with business objectives and industry best practices.
2. ML development and fine-tuning (30%)
Create data generation and processing pipelines to train and fine-tune custom ML models.
Implement and manage training and evaluation pipelines for LLMs.
Required Qualifications
We are looking for a strong background in ML and LLM-driven systems. Proven expertise in AI model building and agent development.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building production-grade, enterprise-scale AI models.
Familiarity with AI deployment, evaluation, and monitoring practices.
Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Join the Future of AI at Tessera Labs
We're looking for someone who enjoys building reliable, scalable systems that help teams move faster. If you take pride in cutting-edge AI, value clear ownership, and want to have a meaningful impact in a fast-moving environment, you’ll fit right in.
At Tessera Labs, you'll be part of an elite team pushing the boundaries of AI. Our CEO, Kabir Nagrecha, is the youngest-ever Ph.D. from UC San Diego at 20, with AI research experience at Meta (LLaMA), Netflix (Studio ML), and Apple (Siri AI). Co-Founder and COO Ming Chang brings 20 years of expertise in secure, scalable enterprise systems as Sr. Global Director of Security & Compliance at SAP and Tencent.
Backed by visionary investors and advisors—including Rajeev Madhavan (3x founder, GP at Clear Ventures), Padman Ramankutty (SAP expert, serial entrepreneur), and Abdul Razack (Ex-CPO of SAP)—we’re building AI with real-world impact.
If you’re ready to shape the future of AI, join us.
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