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Hiring: Founding ML / AI Engineering Interns at Tracer

Tracer is a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure startup building open-source tools to help AI teams reduce LLM inference costs.

We are looking for strong builders interested in machine learning, LLM applications, Python, backend engineering, embeddings, evaluation, developer tools, and open-source software.

This is a founding internship role. You will work directly on the core product, contribute to the open-source repo, and help improve the systems behind Tracer’s surrogate training, parity gates, routing logic, benchmarks, and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve Python pipelines for ML surrogate training, routing, clustering, embeddings, vector search, and evaluation
• Work on LLM routing logic, parity gates, and quality monitoring
• Improve the developer experience around the open-source SDK, documentation, examples, and integrations
• Explore benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation frameworks for LLM classification and routing
• Contribute ideas, identify gaps, and help shape the product from an early stage

Who we are looking for

• Students, recent graduates, self-taught engineers, researchers, or early builders
• Strong interest in ML, LLMs, AI infrastructure, developer tools, or open-source
• Comfortable reading unfamiliar code, learning quickly, and working independently
• Experience with Python is strongly preferred
• Experience with ML projects, backend engineering, embeddings, vector search, or open-source contributions is a plus

Role details

• Internship
• Paid
• Remote worldwide
• 3–6 months
• Flexible start date
• Work directly with the founder

How to stand out

Before applying, please open the Tracer GitHub repo, read the README, and leave a star if the project resonates with you. In your application, mention one idea, question, issue, or improvement you noticed while exploring the repo.

GitHub: https://github.com/adrida/tracer

Apply here: https://tracerml.ai/hiring/

Pay: ₹393,473.71 - ₹1,630,962.62 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Work from home

Work Location: Remote