Infrastructure Engineer Intern

📋 Job Overview

Dedalus Labs builds persistent computers for AI agents. Our flagship product, Dedalus Machines, gives agents an isolated environment where they can run software, keep files and state, and work over time. We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer Intern to improve the team's development tools and workflows through focused fixes and speed improvements.

🏢 About Dedalus Labs

Dedalus Labs builds persistent computers for AI agents. Our flagship product, Dedalus Machines, gives agents an isolated environment where they can run software, keep files and state, and work over time.

🎯 The Role

We're looking for someone who notices a slow build, a repeated manual step, or a service that fails in a way nobody can explain, and wants to make it better. You'll improve the team's development tools and workflows through focused fixes and speed improvements.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• A build, test, or deployment improvement. Trace where the time goes, identify repeated work or a reliability problem, and verify the change against the same workload.
• A provisioning or developer-tooling workflow that another engineer can run and troubleshoot from its documentation.
• A small code change that eliminates repeated work, improves build or cache efficiency, or speeds up a developer workflow, with tests for the behavior it changes.
• Diagnostics that connect a failed operation to the relevant logs, metrics, and resource state, followed by a fix for the underlying problem.

📌 Required Qualifications

• You have completed a meaningful programming project in Go, Rust, C, C++, or a similar language. You can explain its design, inspect its behavior on Linux, and investigate a failure.
• Experience with CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, or infrastructure as code is useful.
• Show us a tool someone used, a service you operated, a difficult bug you reproduced, or an experiment that led to a working improvement. Research and coursework are welcome too. Tell us what you personally implemented, including any decisions or extensions beyond the starting instructions.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• When you get stuck, you narrow the problem, read the relevant source or documentation, and try an experiment that can teach you something. You ask for help with the evidence you've collected and explain what you need to understand next. You act on feedback and keep ownership of the result.
• You use AI coding tools where they help. You must be able to explain the resulting code, test its behavior, and correct it when it is wrong. We care about your judgment and understanding throughout the work.

🎁 Benefits

• Hourly pay by internship term $30 – $50 per hour • Off-cycle: $30-$40/hour. Summer: $45-$50/hour. Actual pay is based on hours worked.
• Meals and office benefits included.
• Relocation support may be available.
• Visa support may be considered depending on the candidate and circumstances.
• Possible consideration for full-time employment, without a guarantee of conversion.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Visa support may be considered depending on the candidate and circumstances.