Intern, Software Engineer - Platform

About Us

At Hayden AI, we are on a mission to harness the power of computer vision to transform the way transit systems and other government agencies address real-world challenges.

From bus lane and bus stop enforcement to transportation optimization technologies and beyond, our innovative mobile perception system empowers our clients to accelerate transit, enhance street safety, and drive toward a sustainable future.

About the Team the Platform Team

The Platform team serves as the foundational layer that keeps Hayden's operations running reliably and at scale. This team is responsible for ensuring that Perception algorithms run smoothly across both purpose-built edge hardware and public cloud infrastructure. The team manages event processing, starting from device and ending at delivery to partners. It is also responsible for the fleet's health. Security, compliance, data governance, and data privacy is also within the responsibility of the Platform team.

About the Role

As a Platform Engineering Intern at Hayden AI, you’ll work on the foundational systems that power our entire product. This is not a sandbox role, you will contribute directly to the infrastructure, services, and data pipelines that ensure our Perception algorithms run reliably across edge devices and cloud environments.

You will partner closely with senior engineers to build and improve the systems that move data from devices in the field all the way through event processing and delivery to our partners. Your work may touch cloud services, backend systems, fleet health monitoring, data tooling, or internal platforms that support security, compliance, and governance.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to understand how large-scale AI systems operate in production—from edge hardware to cloud infrastructure—and is excited by reliability, performance, and scalability challenges.

You will gain hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and deploying production-grade systems while learning how high-performing infrastructure teams operate.

This position is based in San Francisco and follows a hybrid schedule with at least 3 days in-office per week.

Key Responsibilities

Below are your primary responsibilities. These represent the core areas where you’ll make an impact. As part of a rapidly evolving team, we look forward to your impact expanding over time.

• Take ownership of a real project and see it through to completion

• Build and ship features with support from senior engineers

• Write clean, scalable code

• Test your work and iterate quickly

• Be involved in everything from design discussions to deployment

• Collaborate with engineers in code reviews and team discussions

• Participate in standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives

• Support the team on ad hoc engineering tasks as they come up

• Help improve performance, reliability, or usability where needed

• ​​Ask questions, seek feedback, and apply it quickly

Deliverables or project examples:

• GPS data analysis

• Train Deep learning model

• Create AI datasets

• Lidar/Camera data tooling

• Test cases for end-to-end system performance

• Develop a cloud service in the event processing pipeline

• Add page or a new user flow to the Portal web application

Required Qualifications

The qualifications below outline the experience and skills most relevant to success in this role. We recognize that skills and potential come in many forms, and we welcome diverse experiences that advance our mission.

• Education:

  • Currently in your final year of a Bachelor’s program, or enrolled in a Master’s or PhD program in Computer Science.
    

• Technical Experience:

  • Experience in one or more of the following programming languages:

    • Go, Python

• Personal Attributes:

  • Detail-oriented with a high bar for quality and accuracy.

  • Curious and self-driven, motivated to dig into problems and find root causes.

  • Strong communicator who can clearly document findings and surface issues to the right stakeholders.

  • Collaborative team player who thrives in cross-functional environments.

  • Organized and reliable, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and follow through consistently.

  • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make progress with limited direction.