Data Science Intern, Generative AI Infrastructure (Meraki) Full-time

Applications are accepted until further notice

As the leader in cloud-managed IT, Cisco Meraki connects passionate people to their mission by simplifying the digital workplace. Our impact is driven by the innovative, purposeful, and vibrant people who make up our inclusive community. When technology is intuitive, our customers can focus on what matters. Our employees fuel the magic of the Meraki community. They have fostered an environment that empowers Merakians to challenge limits, embrace risks, and assist our customers in pursuing their missions.

Our guiding principles are rooted in our four core values: ‘care deeply,’ ‘everybody in,’ ‘simplify everything,’ and ‘be brave.’ These pillars have propelled us to the forefront of cloud-managed IT leadership and have played a pivotal role in shaping a more inclusive future for all.
About the role

The Data Science Infrastructure team is a growing group that works closely with executives and leaders across the company to support the development and alignment on our business strategy. We are looking for an Intern – Software Engineer, Generative AI Infrastructure to develop cross-functional relationships and work closely with data engineering and data science teams to drive near and long term initiatives to improve our product and customer experience. This would be an outstanding fit for a solution-oriented technical pro who is hands-on, has the ability to work autonomously, and can drive technical efforts building robust and resilient auto-scaling GenAI platform solutions. In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. We collect nearly 6 million data points each second (~50B events per day). During this internship, you will work with a cross functional team to design and develop a product feature based on our GenAI tools and infrastructure. You will also help integrate this with our existing. systems.
Example Projects of a Generative AI Software Engineering Intern

• Collaborate with several teams (product and non product) within Meraki to understand their functional and system requirements.
• Design systems to ensure fast, reliable, and scalable delivery of feature based on genAI tools across our cloud based infrastructure.
• Solve challenging scaling problems to ensure a seamless user experience and high uptime.
• Improve and restructure the backend architecture to scale to ever-larger customers.

What Skills You Possess

• You are an 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 platform (K8s).
• Experience working with and utilizing GenAI tools and framework such as OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Co-Pilot, and Snowflake Cortex.
• Bonus points for experience in using AWS tools and services.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and excellent attention to detail and accuracy

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That’s a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great engineers come from diverse backgrounds.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

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